>> (Are there any 8 core phones yet?) Yep, for instance Samsung Galaxy Note 4 :) though it uses 4 at a time, like laptops do.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 06:40:11PM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote: > > https://github.com/tadzik/rakudobrew > > > > I'd recommend > > > > $ rakudobrew build moar_jit # just in time MoarVM > > $ rakudobrew build-panda # like cpanm > > $ panda install Task::Star # some useful modules > > > > It's a lot faster to build than even a few months back and (for a tiny > > number of restricted and probably misleading benchmarks) faster than > > eg its startup is faster than perl -MMoose > (so it can run "Hello World\n" in less time than Moose), but for runtime > benchmarks "your mileage may vary". > > It does create threads faster than ithreads. > But no-one sane would be using threads even on Rakudo, because it has much > nicer concurrency abstractions. > > Which makes it easy to write code that uses more than one CPU core, > including > fanning computation out to multiple cores. Which starts to matter now that > even phones are quad-core. > > (Are there any 8 core phones yet?) > > Nicholas Clark >