Perl virtual machine: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:53, 10 March 2018

Revision as of 19:05, 28 March 2019

Line 1:

{{Expert-subject|Free Softwareand open-source software|date=March 2011}}

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 programs written in the [[Perl]] language. 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.