| From: | Frank Finner <postgresql(at)finner(dot)de> |
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| To: | Darren Ferguson <darren(at)crystalballinc(dot)com> |
| Cc: | dbi-users(at)perl(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Benjamin Franks <benjamin(at)dzhan(dot)com>, Frank Finner <postgresql(at)finner(dot)de> |
| Subject: | Re: Perl DBI, PostgreSQL performance question |
| Date: | 2001-12-15 22:40:27 |
| Message-ID: | XFMail.011215234027.postgresql@finner.de |
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According to "Programming Perl", Preface:
"Unlike a strictly interpreted language such as the shell, which
compiles and executes a script at one command at a time, Perl first
compiles your whole program quickly into an intermediate format. Like
any other compiler, it performs various optimizations... Once Perl´s
compiler frontend is happy with your program, it passes off the
intermediate code to the interpreter to execute..."
mfg Frank Finner
On 14-Dec-01 Darren Ferguson sat down, thought for a long time and then
wrote:
> Perl is an interpreted language. It does not convert into byte code.
>
> It is scanned each time you can it so the interpreter has to go
> through
> everything line by line.
--
Frank Finner
And now there is no turning back at all.
(M. Moorcock, "Elric Of Melnibone")"
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