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| author | Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> | 1998-06-13 16:19:32 -0600 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-06-15 01:37:12 +0000 |
| commit | 5a964f204835a8014f4ba86fc91884cff958ac67 (patch) | |
| tree | b1ad7153799ba133ce772012c9dc05ea615f1c6e /pod/perlrun.pod | |
| parent | ad973f306c11e119dc3a8448590409962bde25db (diff) | |
| download | perl-5a964f204835a8014f4ba86fc91884cff958ac67.tar.gz | |
documentation update from tchrist
Message-Id: <199806140419.WAA20549@chthon.perl.com>
Subject: doc patches
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1132
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlrun.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrun.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index 84ce270e3e..72c772e4bb 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -512,14 +512,15 @@ support that). =item B<-u> causes Perl to dump core after compiling your script. You can then -take this core dump and turn it into an executable file by using the +in theory take this core dump and turn it into an executable file by using the B<undump> program (not supplied). This speeds startup at the expense of some disk space (which you can minimize by stripping the executable). (Still, a "hello world" executable comes out to about 200K on my machine.) If you want to execute a portion of your script before dumping, use the dump() operator instead. Note: availability of B<undump> is platform specific and may not be available for a specific port of -Perl. +Perl. It has been superseded by the new perl-to-C compiler, which is more +portable, even though it's still only considered beta. =item B<-U> |