Re: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #101 (2016.07)

[Steve Mynott]

There is a release candidate at
http://pl6anet.org/drop/rakudo-star-2016.07-RC0.tar.gz

S

On 16 July 2016 at 18:51,   wrote:
>
> Quoting Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com>:
>
>> When's the next Rakudo* likely to be out?
>
>
> There's a serious consideration to cut a release this month, so you will
> likely see one in the next couple of weeks.
>
> Cheers,
> ZZ
>



-- 
4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott 

Re: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #101 (2016.07)

[zoffix]

Quoting Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com>:


When's the next Rakudo* likely to be out?


There's a serious consideration to cut a release this month, so you  
will likely see one in the next couple of weeks.


Cheers,
ZZ

Re: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #101 (2016.07)

[Parrot Raiser]

When's the next Rakudo* likely to be out?
It sounds as though there are some worthwhile performance enhancements
in there, but I've been told not to try updating bits of the *
package.

On 7/16/16, zof...@zoffix.com <zof...@zoffix.com> wrote:
> # Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #101 (2016.07)
>
> On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the
> July 2016 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #101. Rakudo is an implementation of
> Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1].
>
> This release implements the 6.c version of the Perl 6 specifications.
> It includes bugfixes and optimizations on top of
> the 2015.12 release of Rakudo, but no new features.
>
> Upcoming releases in 2016 will include new functionality that is not
> part of the 6.c specification, available with a lexically scoped
> pragma. Our goal is to ensure that anything that is tested as part of the
> 6.c specification will continue to work unchanged. There may be incremental
> spec releases this year as well.
>
> The tarball for this release is available from
> <http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/>.
>
> Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star
> distribution[^2] --- it’s announcing a new release of the compiler
> only. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see
> <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>.
>
> The changes in this release are outlined below:
>
> New in 2016.07:
>   + Fixes:
> + Mu can now be the result of a Promise
> + samewith() now also works on none-multi's
> + Many fixes in the area of pre-compilation and installing modules
> + count-only and bool-only now are optional methods in Iterators
>   (only to be implemented if they can work without generating anything)
> + IO::ArgFiles.slurp / IO::ArgFiles.eof are fixed
> + REPL whitespace and error handling
> + CompUnit::Repository::Installation no longer considers `bin/xxx` and
>   `resources/bin/xxx` the same content address
> + min/max on Failures throw instead of returning ±Inf
> + NativeCall's is mangled trait no longer ignored for CPPStruct
>   + Additions:
> + Support for new leap-second at 31-12-2016 added
> + The "is required" trait on Attributes can now take a Bool or a Str
> + IO::[Path,Handle] gained a .mode method which returns the POSIX
> file permissions
> + Distribution is now a role interface that enables encapsulating IO
>   used for distribution installation
> + CompUnit::Repository::Installation now uses the new Distribution
> interface
> + Custom repository implementations now supported, including
> precompilation
>   + Efficiency:
> + The MMD cache accepts candidates with named parameters if it can.
>   (This made adverbed slices about 18x as fast)
> + Str.samemark is 50x faster
> + Str.contains is 6x faster
> + Baggy.pick(N)/pick()/roll()/grab() are 6x faster
> + Array.List is 5x faster
> + List.elems is 4.5x faster
> + for/map with 2 arguments is 4x faster (e.g. for @a.kv -> $i, $v { })
> + Str.substr-eq is 4x faster
> + List.Bool is 4x faster
> + Map eqv Map is 3x faster
> + Make "for List.pairs {}" 2.5x faster
> + Array.pop is 2.5x faster
> + List.AT-POS/EXISTS-POS are 2.5x faster
> + Creating arrays with [] is 2.5x faster
> + Array.AT-POS/ASSIGN-POS/BIND-POS at least 2x faster for
> unreified elements
> + Array.DELETE-POS is 7x faster
> + Str.starts-with is 2x faster
> + Array.shift is 2x faster
> + Blob/Buf.AT-POS is 2x faster (underlying method of e.g. "$buf[2]")
> + List.STORE is 2x faster (e.g. "my ($a,$b,$c) = (1,2,3)")
> + Make "for List.kv {}" 1.8x faster
> + Array.push/append is 40% faster
> + Str.comb 30% faster
> + Map/Hash initializations are now 30% faster
> + A slurpy taking a list is 30% faster ("sub a(*@a) { }; a(1,2,3,4)")
> + Pair.new is 10% faster
> + {}|[]:adverb is 2.5x faster
>
> These are only some of the changes in this release. For a more
> detailed list, see “docs/ChangeLog”.
>
> The following people contributed to this release:
>
> Elizabeth Mattijsen, Zoffix Znet, Jan-Olof Hendig, Stefan Seifert, Tom
> Browder, Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer, Pepe Schwarz, Brock Wilcox, Jonathan
> Worthington, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev, Pawel Murias, Will
> "Coke" Coleda, Daniel Green, Josh Soref, Nick Logan, Christian
> Bartolomäus, Salvador Ortiz, Altai-man, Jonathan Stowe, Timo Paulssen,
> Brad Gilbert, Moritz Lenz, Steve Mynott, David H. Adler, neuron,
> ianmcb, Tobias Leich, Matt Oates, Rob Hoelz, Altai-ch, LLFourn
>
> If you would like to contribute or fi

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #101 (2016.07)

[zoffix]

# Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #101 (2016.07)

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the
July 2016 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #101. Rakudo is an implementation of
Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1].

This release implements the 6.c version of the Perl 6 specifications.
It includes bugfixes and optimizations on top of
the 2015.12 release of Rakudo, but no new features.

Upcoming releases in 2016 will include new functionality that is not
part of the 6.c specification, available with a lexically scoped
pragma. Our goal is to ensure that anything that is tested as part of the
6.c specification will continue to work unchanged. There may be incremental
spec releases this year as well.

The tarball for this release is available from  
<http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/>.


Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star
distribution[^2] --- it’s announcing a new release of the compiler
only. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see
<http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>.

The changes in this release are outlined below:

New in 2016.07:
 + Fixes:
   + Mu can now be the result of a Promise
   + samewith() now also works on none-multi's
   + Many fixes in the area of pre-compilation and installing modules
   + count-only and bool-only now are optional methods in Iterators
 (only to be implemented if they can work without generating anything)
   + IO::ArgFiles.slurp / IO::ArgFiles.eof are fixed
   + REPL whitespace and error handling
   + CompUnit::Repository::Installation no longer considers `bin/xxx` and
 `resources/bin/xxx` the same content address
   + min/max on Failures throw instead of returning ±Inf
   + NativeCall's is mangled trait no longer ignored for CPPStruct
 + Additions:
   + Support for new leap-second at 31-12-2016 added
   + The "is required" trait on Attributes can now take a Bool or a Str
   + IO::[Path,Handle] gained a .mode method which returns the POSIX  
file permissions

   + Distribution is now a role interface that enables encapsulating IO
 used for distribution installation
   + CompUnit::Repository::Installation now uses the new Distribution  
interface

   + Custom repository implementations now supported, including precompilation
 + Efficiency:
   + The MMD cache accepts candidates with named parameters if it can.
 (This made adverbed slices about 18x as fast)
   + Str.samemark is 50x faster
   + Str.contains is 6x faster
   + Baggy.pick(N)/pick()/roll()/grab() are 6x faster
   + Array.List is 5x faster
   + List.elems is 4.5x faster
   + for/map with 2 arguments is 4x faster (e.g. for @a.kv -> $i, $v { })
   + Str.substr-eq is 4x faster
   + List.Bool is 4x faster
   + Map eqv Map is 3x faster
   + Make "for List.pairs {}" 2.5x faster
   + Array.pop is 2.5x faster
   + List.AT-POS/EXISTS-POS are 2.5x faster
   + Creating arrays with [] is 2.5x faster
   + Array.AT-POS/ASSIGN-POS/BIND-POS at least 2x faster for  
unreified elements

   + Array.DELETE-POS is 7x faster
   + Str.starts-with is 2x faster
   + Array.shift is 2x faster
   + Blob/Buf.AT-POS is 2x faster (underlying method of e.g. "$buf[2]")
   + List.STORE is 2x faster (e.g. "my ($a,$b,$c) = (1,2,3)")
   + Make "for List.kv {}" 1.8x faster
   + Array.push/append is 40% faster
   + Str.comb 30% faster
   + Map/Hash initializations are now 30% faster
   + A slurpy taking a list is 30% faster ("sub a(*@a) { }; a(1,2,3,4)")
   + Pair.new is 10% faster
   + {}|[]:adverb is 2.5x faster

These are only some of the changes in this release. For a more
detailed list, see “docs/ChangeLog”.

The following people contributed to this release:

Elizabeth Mattijsen, Zoffix Znet, Jan-Olof Hendig, Stefan Seifert, Tom  
Browder, Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer, Pepe Schwarz, Brock Wilcox, Jonathan  
Worthington, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev, Pawel Murias, Will  
"Coke" Coleda, Daniel Green, Josh Soref, Nick Logan, Christian  
Bartolomäus, Salvador Ortiz, Altai-man, Jonathan Stowe, Timo Paulssen,  
Brad Gilbert, Moritz Lenz, Steve Mynott, David H. Adler, neuron,  
ianmcb, Tobias Leich, Matt Oates, Rob Hoelz, Altai-ch, LLFourn


If you would like to contribute or find out more information, visit
<http://perl6.org>, <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the
<perl6-compi...@perl.org> mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.

The next release of Rakudo (#102), is tentatively scheduled for 2016-08-20.

A list of the other planned release dates is available in the
“docs/release_guide.pod” file.

The development team appreciates feedback! If you’re using Rakudo, do
get back to us. Questions, comments, suggestions for improvements, cool
discoveries, incredible hacks, or any other feedback -- get in touch with
us through (the above-mentioned) mailing list or IRC channel. Enjoy!

Please note that recent releases have known issues running on the JVM.
We are working to get the