From: pengyu.ut@gmail.com   
      
   I'm looking for some references on how a scripting program run so that   
   I can understand the runtime behavior better. But I don't find such a   
   reference. For example, I checked Programming Language Pragmatics by   
   Michael L. Scott. It seems only mentioned the programming language   
   that needs compilation.   
      
   Could somebody pointing me some reference on how a script is executed   
   so that I can understand the runtime behavior better?   
      
   Also, why the compiled code in java and perl are in general slower   
   than the equivalent code in C or C++?   
   [Because java and perl are compiled to internal forms that are then   
   interpreted, or in   
   Java's case, sometimes translated at runtime. -John]   
      
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