Cole Tuininga writes: > As a CGI language, it suffers much the same as many interpreted > languages. The interpreter has to fire up, read in the code (plus > included modules), then process. Python has one minor advantage over > perl in that the first time you run it, it compiles it to bytecode and > saves that as a file. Saves a step next time you run it if you haven't > modified the source file.
If this really is an important consideration (and 99.99999% of the time it simply isn't) Perl has a bytecode back end that can be configured to dump the compiled bytecode out. (perlcc -B yourfile.pl) Regards, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark (cetaceannetworks.com!kclark) | Will hack Perl for Cetacean Networks, Inc. | fine food, good beer, Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | or fun. alumni.unh.edu!kdc (GnuPG ID: B280F24E)) | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
