perl questions?

[altaratz]

Hi - I'm currently running some computationally-intensive perl programs on a shared host server. The number of computations required is really, really intensive, and I'm afraid I'm getting poor results for speed of data analysis.

I'm wondering:

Can I load a perl interpreter on my home PC (Win 98) and run the same perl code on my home computer - is the code portable, and will it work on Windows like on Unix?

If this is possible, how do I "load Perl" onto my computer? I've definitely got no experience in this, so any layman's help would be appreciated.

Thanks - help to these questions are greatly appreciated!

Ethan

 

[MikeLacey]

Most Perl code will run on any supported platform.

There are some things that won't work. If, for example, a script calls a UNIX program then that script won't work anywhere but on a UNIX platform, and it might well have to be a specific UNIX platform as well.

It's well worth trying though.

Go to

http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Get.plex?id=ActivePerl

for the Perl windows executables. Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[greadey]

Yes, The only real caveats are mentioned in the perlfunc manpage of the Activestate distribution, and they are under the title of "Portability".