Re: [MacPerl] Byte Compiler for MacPerl

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

markem@flash.net writes:
>So does this mean that they decided to go with Java instead of trying to
>produce compilable C/C++ code?

No.

- The Perl compiler in perl5.005 has several output options.
- One of them is C code, another is byte code (but *not* Java byte code).
- I currently believe that the byte code backend will be much more interesting
  for most applications than the C code backend.

Matthias

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