Stuff About the Compiler
In this section, we'll examine applications compiled to native code. We won't deal much with p-code (packed code) at all, aside from a brief introduction and some comparisons with native code.
As you probably know, Visual Basic 6 applications, just like their Visual Basic 5 counterparts, can now be "properly" compiled, unlike Visual Basic version 4 and lower, which produced p-code executables. In other words, as well as producing p-code executables, Visual Basic 6 can produce a native code binary. Which compile option you choose is up to you. I suspect that most corporate developers will want to know more about this compiler process than they ever wanted to know about p-code.