On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 14:07 -0700, fREW Schmidt wrote: > # New Ticket Created by fREW Schmidt > # Please include the string: [perl #63874] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63874 > > > > mmmm, perl6
I'm all in favor of converting things that are complex in PIR to things that are simple in Perl 6 ... but why convert things that boil down to a single instruction in PIR into complex things in Perl 6? Especially since the complex Perl 6 code is highly likely to run a couple orders of magnitude slower? Lesson from the Forth world: In cases where the semantic of a high-level word exactly (or very closely) matches an instruction in the hardware's ISA, it really deserves to be a primitive. -'f
