Hi monks,

I was just able to compile Perl on Windows which made me really really excited! It didn't require much after all, but a compiler (I used gcc of course) and some other GNUware (dmake etc).

I would really like to get into it, but the source code seems chaotic. Is there any documentation, or a reference that guides through the magic of Perl source code? Some documentation about the inner algorithms and the respective source files perhaps?

Update: I am much interested in the inner workings of the Perl interpreter. For example, how does it adjust an array on demand, or how it actually implements garbage collection?

UPDATE: I found a very very interesting repository describing the inner workings of Perl.Just what I was looking for. You may find it here http://www.faqs.org/docs/perl5int

In reply to Perl source code documentation? by ptoulis

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