Re: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?

And if you want to see the Diana-code (it's an Ada-term as I recall) all you have to do is take some wrap'ed code and "Dec" it, since wrap'ed code is nothing but Diana-code that has been Hex'ed. Guess who told me that...

Mogens

Connor McDonald wrote:

>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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