Welcome to NetThink's Perl 5 Internals training course. This is a three-hour course which provides a hands-on introduction to how the perl interpreter works internally, how to go about testing and fixing bugs in the interpreter, and what the internals are likely to look like in the future of Perl, Perl 6.
Development Structure
Parts of the Interpreter
Internal Variables
The Lexer and the Parser
Fundamental operations
The Runtime Environment
The Perl Compiler
Hacking on perl
Perl 6 Internals