Not Your Grandfather’s Perl

Re:Not Your Grandfather’s Perl by int_19h on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:35PM (#32774645)

This has been the usual way to implement interpreted languages for decades; Perl isn't special in that regard. JIT generally refers to generation and execution of native code specifically.

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Re:Not Your Grandfather’s Perl by jandrese on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:57AM (#32775471)

I'm pretty sure bash still interprets line by line because you can mess up a script by editing it while it is executing.

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Re:Not Your Grandfather’s Perl by int_19h on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:18AM (#32788313)

bash (and other shells) are special in that regard, because they use textual substitution so heavily - to pass arguments etc.

But Python, Ruby etc all compile to bytecode, and have always done so as far as I can remember.

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