Description:

This compiler backend takes Perl source and generates C source code
corresponding to the internal structures that perl uses to run your
program. When the generated C source is compiled and run, it cuts out the
time which perl would have taken to load and parse your program into its
internal semi-compiled form. That means that compiling with this backend
will not help improve the runtime execution speed of your program but may
improve the start-up time. Depending on the environment in which your
program runs this may be either a help or a hindrance.