On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:07:24PM +0200, James Mastros wrote: > 4. The single-file, platform dependent, machine language executable > (realexe). This is a plain old executable, that does not particularly > indicate it was generated by a "scripting" language. It requires no odd > handing vs a normal executable for the target platform, because it /is/ > a normal executable for the target platform. It may be staticly or > dynamicly linked to the necessary libraries.
Which parrot can already do. (Or at least could, but I don't think that anyone's been checking on it recently) This work was completed as a result of a TPF grant that Daniel Grunblatt received last year: http://www.perlfoundation.org/gc/grants/2003_q2.html > Mostly, though, they require fairly minimal support from the core. Only > 1 requires C<perl> support, and that support is very minimal. The and as you say all this really isn't about perl 6 the language. Nicholas Clark
