Re: COBOL compiler

[Deryk Barker <dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca>]

Thus spake Kirk Strauser (kirk@strauser.com):

> At 2003-08-27T11:41:17Z, Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > To me, it seems that the obvious solution is to run the script through a
> > Perl compiler, and produce a binary executable that should execute at the
> > same order of speed as any other compiled HLL code.
> 
> Perl is compiled into opcodes before execution begins.  All Perl is compiled.

Perl is byte-compiled (like java was intended, like python) which
means that the resulting bytecode must still be interpreted, adding a
level of overhead to compilation to native code.

python actually can be "frozen" to produce an executable that does not
require IIRC even the python runtime library to be present.

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