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What's an extension?

A way of calling compiled C code from Perl. Reading the perlxstut manpage is a good place to learn more about extensions.


Source: Perl FAQ: Perl Language Issues
Copyright: Copyright (c) 1997 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
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