> Because it worked by forcing the Perl script to dump core, then using undump
> to convert the result to an executable. Nonportable (undump is impossible
> on some architectures), forces formerly shared data and sometimes shared
> code to be non-shared, and can do strange and/or ugly things (or not work at
> all) if shared libraries are involved. (Which they often are in Perl5 ---
> hasn't I/O been moved to a .xs module?)
Note I was talking about the Perl compiler (--> C) that is now part of
perl5. The perl4 kludge is dead and buried.
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