Single-purpose tools that can be used in a pipeline; what a concept! :-)*
On 8/27/15, Tadeusz Sośnierz <tadeusz.sosni...@onet.pl> wrote: > This will probably impact quite a few people, so I thought I'll explain > myself here :) > > As of now, panda will not precompile Perl 6 code anymore. This will > introduce unexpected slowness, for instance HTTP::UserAgent now takes > 5.4 seconds to load instead of 0.8 on my machine. > > It may now sound like a very bad idea, but I think it's necessary. Panda > was never doing precompilation very well, and maintaining it as both > module manager and a precompilation manager was a massive PITA. It's > been long agreed that precompiled modules are a cache > that should be managed by rakudo itself, just nobody got around to > implementing it yet :) > Hopefully now that everything in the wild will be slow it will raise > some awareness of the issue and make someone sit down to it and make it > happen. Possibly myself. > > It may be desired and/or tempting to take the old precompilation logic > from panda git history > and implement it as an external tool, thus bringing us to the state we > were in before, just with two tools instead of one. Maybe it's not a bad > idea, it will surely make life of the end-users a lot less painful, but > it will still make it seem like the problem is solved and there are more > pressing matters to attend to before christmas. I don't want that to > happen, so I'm putting my mixed feelings aside and I won't make it > happen myself, in the name of raising awareness of the problem. > > I hope this won't ruin your development flow too much, but as a certain > short king^Wprince once said, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make :) > > Hope you have a wonderful day. > > xoxo, > tadzik >
