Perl virtual machine: Difference between revisions

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The '''Perl virtual machine''' is a [[Stack machine|stack-based]] [[Application virtual machine|process virtual machine]] implemented as an [[opcode]]s [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] which runs previously compiled [[Perl]] programs. The opcodes interpreter is a part of the Perl interpreter, which also contains a [[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.

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