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Perl doesn't know about bytecode either. It only reads source code.

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Re^3: encrypting perl code used with mod_perl
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 17, 2006 at 20:59 UTC
    Core module ByteLoader claims to be able to load bytecode.

      Yeah, but that's just a trick identical to using Acme::Bleach. It doesn't really mean perl knows anything about bytecode. In fact, bytecode is foreign to perl. We just don't have any. Not normally.

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        Foreign? What do you call the units from which the Perl parse tree is made? That's to what I was refereing when I said bytecode. If anything, Perl code is more foreign than this code because perl can't execute Perl code without transforming it into this code first.