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>From the keyboard of Temcguire@aol.com on Tue, 9 Sep 1997:
>
> Question#2:  Can PERL scripts be translated into C and compiled into
> executables?  Do regular expressions and associative arrays (awk) exist in
> any other languages that can be translated and compiled?

This question is more relevant to Perl than to FreeBSD.

Yes & yes. An alpha-quality Perl compiler is available from anywhere that  
you can get perl itself (ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/perl/CPAN/, for example).  
For details, see ``perlfaq3 - Programming Tools: How can I compile my Perl  
program into byte-code or C?'' in the Perl FAQ.

Perl's regular expression support is a superset of awk's and way faster.

-mi


> Thank you for any possible assistance!
> Dr. Thomas E. McGuire
> 411 East 9th Avenue
> Salt Lake City, UT 84103
>
> P.S.,
> The Pentium Pro I purchased (Micron Inc.) has the option of a second
> processor.  I have 64Mb of memory and wonder if I installed another
> processor, would FreeBSD operate much faster?