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The Perl virtual machine is a stack-based opcodes interpreter which runs a previously compiled Perl programs. It is a part of Perl interpreter which contains also compiler (lexer, parser and optimizer) in one executable file, commonly /usr/bin/perl on various Unix-like systems or perl.exe on Microsoft Windows systems.