On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:39:05AM +0100, Mattia Barbon wrote: > >It seems that's wrong. That what perlcc/B::C does is 'freeze' the > >current state of the interpreter after compilation, including the > >values of variables, and then spit out appropriate C code for only > >the post-compile opcode tree. Is this right? > > Yes. That's what makes startup time faster ( but not run time, > as you surely know )
I always thought that was recouped because you didn't have to load the interpreter and wait for Perl to compile the program and libraries to bytecode. PS I got a huge number of these warnings from compiling 'use CGI' pccF6qox.c:14873: warning: decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned pccF6qox.c:14875: warning: decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One This is my sig file. Is it not nify? Worship the sig file. http://www.sluggy.com