[svn:perlfaq] r7822 - perlfaq/trunk

Author: rafael
Date: Mon Sep 11 05:22:59 2006
New Revision: 7822

Modified:
   perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq1.pod
   perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq3.pod

Log:
Remove allusions to the now deprecated bytecode compiler.


Modified: perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq1.pod
==============================================================================
--- perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq1.pod	(original)
+++ perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq1.pod	Mon Sep 11 05:22:59 2006
@@ -275,9 +275,7 @@
 shared-memory applications, or extremely large applications.  You'll
 notice that perl is not itself written in Perl.
 
-The new, native-code compiler for Perl may eventually reduce the
-limitations given in the previous statement to some degree, but understand
-that Perl remains fundamentally a dynamically typed language, not
+Perl remains fundamentally a dynamically typed language, not
 a statically typed one.  You certainly won't be chastised if you don't
 trust nuclear-plant or brain-surgery monitoring code to it.  And Larry
 will sleep easier, too--Wall Street programs not withstanding. :-)
@@ -312,14 +310,6 @@
 once and can then be run multiple times, whereas a I<script> must be
 translated by a program each time it's used.
 
-Perl programs are (usually) neither strictly compiled nor strictly
-interpreted.  They can be compiled to a byte-code form (something of a
-Perl virtual machine) or to completely different languages, like C or
-assembly language.  You can't tell just by looking at it whether the
-source is destined for a pure interpreter, a parse-tree interpreter,
-a byte-code interpreter, or a native-code compiler, so it's hard to give
-a definitive answer here.
-
 Now that "script" and "scripting" are terms that have been seized by
 unscrupulous or unknowing marketeers for their own nefarious purposes,
 they have begun to take on strange and often pejorative meanings,

Modified: perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq3.pod
==============================================================================
--- perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq3.pod	(original)
+++ perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq3.pod	Mon Sep 11 05:22:59 2006
@@ -800,12 +800,6 @@
 analog to Java's JAR.  It's freely available and on CPAN (
 http://search.cpan.org/dist/PAR/ ).
 
-The B::* namespace, often called "the Perl compiler", but is really a way
-for Perl programs to peek at its innards rather than create pre-compiled
-versions of your program.  However. the B::Bytecode module can turn your
-script  into a bytecode format that could be loaded later by the
-ByteLoader module and executed as a regular Perl script.
-
 There are also some commercial products that may work for you, although
 you have to buy a license for them.