perlcc has never worked and is dead.

Actually, not quite true! I worked at a place a few years ago where perlcc was used in order to boost performance (significantly, I might add) for CGI scripts. I remember being stuck on perl 5.003 because perlcc was broken in 5.004, since it was truly never really supported. But it did (mostly) work in 5.003... no argument with "dead" though, of course. :)