Re: [MacPerl] Compiler for Mac_Perl

[John Mignault <mignault@nytimes.com>]

At 9:31 AM -0800 12/13/96, Raymond Lauzzana wrote:
>My question is: Is there compilers for the language? That is,
>are there translators that produce stand-alone runtime code that
>can run in environments which do not have copies of the interpretor?

Nanoanswer: no.

Shortish answer: Not yet.

Explanation: Yes and no. There is a very early version of a perl compiler
being done by Malcolm Beattie; see
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/perl.html for details. As far as I know,
it's just barely available on Unix yet, which means it's probably pretty
far off on the Mac. The compiler source (alpha-3 release, I believe) is
available from your nearest CPAN site.

He's also working on a multithreaded interpreter. Interesting.

You might be able to find more stuff on the Perl Language Home Page at
http://www.perl.com/perl/index.html.

John

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