On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:37 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On 7/3/07, Clinton Gormley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, the Perl code itself has > > already been compiled into C and is fast. > > It's not a very important distinction, but perl code is not compiled > into C. It gets compiled to an intermediary format of Perl opcodes, > which you can see with the B:: tools.
Apparently, those opcodes are C-structs, rather than an intermediate bytecode: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=600141 Clint
