Re^3: Precompiled perl...

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.

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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]

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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.

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