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Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl speed vs MachTen FORTRAN

At 22.57 -0500 1998.11.18, Mamoru Yamanishi wrote:
>Instead of this, Perl is interpreter.  Therefore, your perl script
>cannot run directory on CPU.

The fact that it is interpreted is not really why it would be slow, because
it is, in fact, compiled.  The perl program is often called the "perl
interpreter", but it could just as well be called the "perl compiler".
Except now there is a separate thing called the Perl compiler.  Oh well.

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