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The '''Perl virtual machine''' is a [[Stack machine|stack-based]] [[Application virtual machine|process virtual machine]] implemented as [[opcode|opcodes]] [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] which runs a previously compiled [[Perl]] programs. Opcodes interpreter is is a part of Perl interpreter which contains also [[Compiler|compiler]] ([[Lexical analysis|lexer]], [[Parsing|parser]] and [[Compiler optimization|optimizer]]) in one executable file, commonly /usr/bin/perl on various [[Unix-like]] systems or perl.exe on [[Microsoft Windows]] systems.

==Implementation==