On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carr...@theingots.org> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > In addition to Patrick's excellent reply, I'd like to mention that one way > to help the project is to just write code in Perl 6. This is a good way to > find bugs, including performance bugs.
I have just sent off an email to Patrick along this same lines - here are some links you may be interested in: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=458728 # Perl6 Contest: Test your Skills http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=462987 # Perl6 Contest #2: P6 That Doesn't Look Like P5 http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=458728 # Perl6 Contest: Test your Skills http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/examples/ # Examples of perl 6 when Pugs was under heavy development My offer is to port a lot of my old perl 5 code to perl 6 > One little project I'm doing is I'm porting the benchmarks from the Debian > language shootout to Perl 6. I figure this is a good place to start because > each benchmark is designed to test one specific aspect of the language. I've > only done a couple of benchmarks. If you are interested, why don't you help > me? Porting benchmarks is a good way to learn Perl 6. I know these benchmarks have their value, but I am more interested in real practical code that I have previously written to solve a problem. I know that the Rakudo code will be slower than the perl 5. In fact, I would expect it to be slower by a consistent factor unless there is some aspect of that program with a major optimization flaw. I am interested in a tool that can benchmark both perl 5 and perl 6 natively. I am obviously aware of Benchmark.pm for perl 5 and of http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/ext/Benchmark/lib/Benchmark.pm for perl 6 (not sure when it was last updated) I really don't want to have to set up two benchmarks for each program and then capture the output and then merge the results. I know I could write some code to do that but if someone already has such a tool I would just as soon use that. > > Cheers, > Daniel. > Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region
