April 2017 Archives

You won't believe this one quick Perl 6 optimization hack!

Now that I've alienated half the crowd, here's the scoop. Perl6::Parser has a fairly extensive test suite, which I run on my laptop inside an Ubuntu 14.04 VM - it's the latest version I can find that supports seamless integration, though I'm considering completely dumping the GUI and going with just a few SSH connections.

But enough of that. Baseline Rakudo Perl 6 currently runs the Perl6::Parser test suite in 0.61s usr, 0.07s sys + 80s cusr time, 90 wallclock seconds, which is rather amazing considering how extensive and invasive the test suite is. After this one simple change, that …

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