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in reply to Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6"

Perl 6 is going to easily oustrip Perl 5 in terms of performance.

Is it? Easily?

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Re^2: Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6"
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 29, 2019 at 18:09 UTC
    Jonathan has shown some benchmarks of his optimization in his last yapc talks.

    You might wanna check out the videos.

    I can't tell much about the practicability of his work though.

    Side note

    I'm personally convinced that Perl 6 will only have a chance to survive if Perl 5 opcode can be somehow translated to it's VM primitives, hence bridging the gap.

    Those optimisations should than benefit P5 too.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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      I remember having this argument in 2011. So I'm not convinced about the inevitability of performance improvements and I'm definitely not convinced about the ease of these improvements.

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        I was just pointing you to the source.

        Neither trying to convince you nor claiming that I am.

        I hope this was already clear.

        Update

        And if your last status is from 2011 then you should certainly watch the 2019 videos and comment on them.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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