On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 07:13, Mike Noyes wrote:
> >From what I'm able to determine it's in alpha.
Correction,
It looks like it didn't make the feature cut. :-(
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html
In the foreseeable future all Perl 6 programs will require the
resources of the Parrot engine.
> It looks like it allows writing in perl and execution in c. I wonder if
> the generated code will compile with uclibc. Interesting stuff. :-)
>
>
> http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/comp-vs-interp.html
> Another code-generator that produces compilable C code, except
> that this one doesn't just trace the steps the interpreter would
> have followed, but actually produces optimized code (for
> example, it would work with raw integers directly rather than
> calling the interpreter calls that would have done so).
>
> If your code makes use of any dynamically-loaded modules (like
> POSIX, Socket, Fcntl, FileHandle, etc.), then you must keep
> those modules' binary forms (POSIX.so, Socket.so, etc) around so
> they can be found when your executable gets run. Both backends
> one and two alleviate the need to store the original,
> pre-compiled source code anywhere. Backends two and three
> alleviate the need to keep the old PP interpreter lying about.
> Backend number three is the only one which is going to speed up
> execution time when compared with the old PP interpreter.
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