I faced something similar to this a while back. This is just some more food for thought (and maybe a little OT). My understanding of Perl 6 was that you could ask Perl to produce byte code that is compatable with Parrot. Does this mean that someone could write a Parrot to native instruction set compiler? This seems like a common problem, as I found Python programmers created a Py2Exe as well. Does anyone know about Parrot's direction for such things?