Hello Will_the_Chill,

Thanks for removing the email address.

I don't think I'm confused about how to write a compiler, since I was very much involved in that in the past.

What you are minimizing is the '...lack of bytecode integrity' on the impact of developing a compiler for Perl. This is a religious decision and not a technical issue. Your attempts will fail because the Perl developers don't want you to succeed. Each new version of Perl will need a unique compiler. So you come out with your Perl compiler 5.20.0 and the next week Perl 5.22.0 is released, and the Perl developers point out that you compiler 5.20.0 doesn't work with 5.22.0. True, because now you have to use the bytecode structure of 5.22.0 for your 'new/updated' compiler, and your always in catch up mode.

Notice, how many are quick to point out that the early attempts at compilers were always 'out of date'.

I wish you luck, but I was only half joking about Perl7. Perl's strength is The Programming Language, not that it's an interpretative language. Of course you need source code, and to develop the software product you need the power of running in an interpretor, but then you need a compiler to distribute the product. Perl5 has two of the three, and will alway have two of three.

Thank you

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

In reply to Re^3: Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 2 by flexvault
in thread Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 2 by Will_the_Chill

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