in reply to Perl "with EMBED"

Sorry about that tye. Does this antique have any value? :)

I still do no fully understand what this is; I'm assuming it's in regards to embedding Perl into others things, but not other things into Perl? In either case, the code using this version is very trivial, so I'm assuming it really doesn't matter. (Although, it does mention that "EMBEDDING is on by default.")

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Re^2: Perl "with EMBED"
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 17, 2007 at 15:28 UTC

    EMBED has no run-time penalty, but helps keep the Perl namespace from colliding with that used by other libraries pulled in by extensions or by embedding perl. Allow a cc -DNO_EMBED override, however, to keep binary compatability with previous versions of perl.

    Sounds to me like it's a good thing except if you wanted to use modules from a previous version without recompiling them.

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