>From >https://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2018/07/perl-6-on-moarvm-has-had-jit-for-few.html
> PS: You might read this and be reasonably surprised that Rakudo Perl 6 is > not, after all this, very fast yet. I have a - not entirely serious - > explanation for that: > 1. All problems in computer science can be solved with a layer of indirection. > 2. Many layers of indirection make programs slow. > 3. Perl 6 solves many computer science problems for you ;-) >. In the future, we'll continue to solve those problems, just faster. Basically, even minor things like adding two numbers together, involve half a dozen or more layers of indirection. (The optimizer eliminates some of the needless layers of indirection.) On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 6:53 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > > On 4/20/19 8:58 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > One liners are fast, but my own programs are very slow to start. > > > > I download > > > > https://github.com/perl6/gtk-simple/blob/master/examples/05-bars.pl6 > > > > To check it out and it also takes ten second to start. > > > > What gives? > > > > Many thanks, > > -T > > > For comparison purposes, I do have similar sized Perl 5 programs > with similar amounts of modules, that start almost instantly.
