Re: Precompiled perl...

It is possible to get this precompiled thing already. It is called bytecode.

# build a precompiled bytecode script named xyz
perl -MO=Bytecode,-H,-oxyz -e 'print "moin\n"' 

# the script can be called with this line
perl xyz
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Re^2: Precompiled perl... by Eyck (Priest) on Oct 27, 2004 at 10:03 UTC
Yeah, but what about pre-compiled libraries, What I would like to achieve is to have all /usr/share/perl5 pre-compiled, this could be very nifty..	[reply]
Re^3: Precompiled perl... by diotalevi (Canon) on Oct 27, 2004 at 14:41 UTC
Not really. Other people have reported that it tends to be slightly more expensive to load a perl program from compiled form than from original source code. I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about this problem. Things like mod_perl exist so that the compilation process happens once and then the in-memory program is just re-used. That avoids the cost of both scenarios.	[reply]
Re^4: Precompiled perl... by Eyck (Priest) on Oct 28, 2004 at 06:35 UTC
I would expect that, because it looks like in current form this byte-loader thing is sitting on top of perl, so it's not really bypassing anything. Also, you seem to be using perl only for web-serving, and quite often I use it stand-alone, and there it would be nice to have fast-loading apps. And although precompiling apps might have negligible effect on performance ( very rarely I write >10k LOC apps ), precompiling libs would be huge. And probably it would require much less resources from the host, thus enabling perl-written apps on embeded platforms.	[reply]