in reply to Automatically Converting Perl to C

What is your real goal? Is it really to get C, or is it something else like creating a distributable executable or making the code faster.

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Re^2: Automatically Converting Perl to C
by blueberryboost (Novice) on Apr 02, 2010 at 01:12 UTC
    First thanks everybody for taking your time to answer my question. My goal is to get from my program something secure, an executable hard to reverse engineer to extract the code. I read that perl2exe is easily reversible, however C executables are much harder to break. In terms of performance I would be very happy if my executable is as fast as my Perl is, I could even live with something that is not significantly slower...
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      however C executables are much harder to break

      That is a common myth, it simply isn't true.

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        OK: even assuming that it is equally easy (or hard) to break a C compiled code, I can still benefit from the fact that automatically generated code (in this case automatically converted Perl code to C code) is fairly unreadable. So I am still interested in getting a tool that converts automatically Perl to C I would appreciate any info about this.
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