PERLINTERP(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLINTERP(1)

PERLINTERP(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLINTERP(1) # PERLINTERP(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLINTERP(1) NNAAMMEE # perlinterp - An overview of the Perl interpreter DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN # This document provides an overview of how the Perl interpreter works at the level of C code, along with pointers to the relevant C source code files. EELLEEMMEENNTTSS OOFF TTHHEE IINNTTEERRPPRREETTEERR # The work of the interpreter has two main stages: compiling the code into the internal representation, or bytecode, and then executing it. ...