Re: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?

From: Connor McDonald <hamcdc_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:08:59 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00452E13.20020430010859@fatcity.com>

Yup - its "compiled" into (if I recall correctly) p-code which is a tokenized and optimized version of the source. You can see a number of IDL prefixed tables under SYS which contain the "compiled" code. You'll see the term DIANA floating about which is related to this as well.

hth
connor

• "Koivu, Lisa" <lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com> wrote:
  > Can this be true? How can this be? If it's
  > optimized to manipulate data
  > within the database, how can it be fast if it's
  > interpreted (like that slow
  > poke, Java)?
  >
  > I see this on Connor's website www.oracledba.co.uk
  > under explicit/implicit
  > cursors, under pl/sql. What on earth?
  >
  > Can someone elaborate, namely, Connor?? Please help
  > me understand this...
  > My "green" may be showing, but my gosh.
  >
  > Lisa Koivu
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