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Message: [QUOTE="Charlton Wilbur, post: 3949554"] SR> By this definition, an interpreter might internally use a SR> compiler and then execute the compiled code, so the program does SR> not necessarily need to run slower. However, it might indeed SR> have an extended startup-time in this case compared to an SR> interpreter that immediatly starts interpreting. And this is, in fact, precisely what Perl (and I believe Python) does, and where a great deal of the overhead of execution comes from. You are, to invoke the clichÃ©, attempting to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. Someday, perhaps even within our lifetime, someone may develop a way for code to be cached once it is compiled by one of these hybrid languages, and thus the overhead of compilation may only be incurred when the code changes. Truly, when that happens we will be living in an age of wonders, and we can only wait for some great man to come and make it happen. Charlton [/QUOTE]