Python help

[Kevin D. Clark]

Cole Tuininga writes:

> As a CGI language, it suffers much the same as many interpreted
> languages.  The interpreter has to fire up, read in the code (plus
> included modules), then process.  Python has one minor advantage over
> perl in that the first time you run it, it compiles it to bytecode and
> saves that as a file.  Saves a step next time you run it if you haven't
> modified the source file.

If this really is an important consideration (and 99.99999% of the
time it simply isn't) Perl has a bytecode back end that can be
configured to dump the compiled bytecode out.

(perlcc -B yourfile.pl)

Regards,

--kevin
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