Re: [MacPerl] Searching a VERY large text file

["Mark F. Murphy" <markm@mail.tyrell.com>]

At 4:33 PM -0500 2/5/98, Lionel Artom-Ginzburg wrote:
>This applies to the MacPerl runtime
>option, too-- I've had MacPerl programs saved in runtime mode end up at
>1.5 megs, when the corresponding C code (which would run on its own,
>without having to load MacPerl to access libraries) would compile to less
>than 200K.

That's because the perl intrp is saved with each runtime as opposed to
being more like MRJ where there's a language library with only a thin shell
for the runtime.

mark

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