Re: questions on serving big file & SQL statement parsing

[Clinton Gormley <suppressed>]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:37 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Clinton Gormley <suppressed> wrote:
> > However, the Perl code itself has
> > already been compiled into C and is fast.
> 
> It's not a very important distinction, but perl code is not compiled
> into C.  It gets compiled to an intermediary format of Perl opcodes,
> which you can see with the B:: tools.

Apparently, those opcodes are C-structs, rather than an intermediate
bytecode:

http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=600141


Clint