October Houston.pm Technical Meeting

Reini Urban has volunteered to present for the October meeting. The topic is a basic introduction to the Perl compiler.

A number of you may not have been aware that Perl had a compiler. Most people are content to use Perl in its normal compile/execute mode. Because people had use cases that would benefit from building an executable from their Perl code, a Perl compiler was built years ago.

Recently Reini has been taking the old compiler code and updating it to support more current Perls.

In this talk, Reini will cover

basic usage of the compiler and its current status the different "phases" of in the lifetime of Perl code some understanding of Perl OPs and what the compiler does with them He will also answer questions like:

How big will my compiled code be? What will the program include at compile-time, what is deferred to run-time? This meeting will be more technical than usual, but it's a rare opportunity to talk with someone who understands Perl's internals. You really don't want to miss it.

Please let me know if you plan to attend, so I can be certain of the food order.