Re^7: Modernizing the Postmodern Language?

So, it is not just that those platforms may have different semantics, it is that those platforms probably have the right semantics.

I'm less convinced, having lived through a couple of big revisions of Parrot and what eventually became Raku. One reason Raku remains so stubbornly slow is because it insists on having a grammar so extensible that you can't even assume a single definition of whitespace.

When you bake the assumption that every call to the tokenizer has to be a virtual method into either the language specification or the implementation, you're going to expose the results of that assumption to everything.

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Re^8: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 05, 2020 at 17:05 UTC
s/One reason Raku remains so stubbornly slow/One reason parsing in Raku remains so stubbornly slow/	[reply]
Re^9: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 06, 2020 at 16:35 UTC
I chose my words deliberately.	[reply]
Re^10: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by b2gills (Novice) on Jul 06, 2020 at 22:50 UTC
Can you explain why Perl is sometimes slower than Raku then? `$ time perl -e 'for (1..1_000_000_000) {}' real 0m30.291s user 0m30.256s sys 0m0.020s $ time raku -e 'for (1..1_000_000_000) {}' real 0m12.407s user 0m12.436s sys 0m0.040s` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^11: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 06, 2020 at 23:24 UTC
Re^12: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 07, 2020 at 03:01 UTC
Re^12: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by bliako (Monsignor) on Jul 07, 2020 at 07:28 UTC
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Re^12: Modernizing the Postmodern Language? by b2gills (Novice) on Jul 14, 2020 at 22:06 UTC
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