Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6 (Boston-pm Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7)

2013-12-13 Thread Uri Guttman
On 12/13/2013 10:17 AM, Morse, Richard E.MGH wrote: On Dec 12, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: you wish to publish all my probing questions, witty comments and general gibberish? i want major royalties!! In that case, I think I want lieutenant royalties. (Or, even

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6

2013-12-12 Thread Greg London
Production ready is hard to define, much like quality. Yeah, but 1000 times slower is objective and pretty definitive. Bill Ricker wrote: Tuesday December 10, 2013 E51-376 Tim King - Benchmarking Perl6 vs Perl5 * Perl 6's suitability for production. (Your definition may vary.) *

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6

2013-12-12 Thread Mike Small
Tom Metro tmetro+boston...@gmail.com writes: From a coder's perspective, will p6 code be elegant? Are the sorts of modules I need available? Will new p6 version break the code I write today? Will it be fast enough? I was trying to understand better Tim's example where he tried to use a sub

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6

2013-12-12 Thread John Redford
The lexical-scope approach makes it possible for a compiler to inline functions and optimize leaf calls, because it knows they don't need to be visible externally. It also means the owner of the module is free to change their implementation without people whining about functionality that was

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting - benchmarking Perl5 vs Perl6 (Boston-pm Digest, Vol 126, Issue 7)

2013-12-12 Thread Tim King
On 12/12/13 2:01 AM, Tom Metro wrote: Bill Ricker wrote: Tuesday December 10, 2013 E51-376 Tim King - Benchmarking Perl6 vs Perl5 * Perl 6's suitability for production. (Your definition may vary.) * Experiences of the state and stability of Rakudo. * Benchmarks of my favorite P6 features. *