Apparatus and method for increasing the performance of interpreted programs running on a server

摘要

An apparatus and method provide the execution of interpreted languages, and more particularly increase the performance of interpreted languages execution in application software. The performance increase of interpreted languages execution is achieved by first moving the interpreted code into one process. This process still utilizes the interpreted code and acts like library of interpreted code routines. Next, when the process is to be executed, the interpreted code process forks itself and then has the child process run the already compiled interpreted code. The advantage of doing this is that the interpreted code in the process is compiled only once, when the process is started. With large interpreted code scripts, it is faster to connect up to the interpreted code process and have it fork a child process to execute the correct code than it is to compile and run the correct code.