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Solomon isn't the first "real user".
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Would you be interested in the results of <a href="https://github.com/japhb/perl6-bench/blob/master/microbenchmarks.pl">microbenchmarks</a> or <a href="https://github.com/japhb/perl6-bench/blob/master/minibenchmarks.pl">minibenchmarks</a> rather than macro/$dayjob benchmarks like Solomon's?
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Solomon's story might not be interesting to you, but it stands in sharp contrast to this recent speculation:
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<blockquote><i>Prediction: Rakudo JVM will perform modestly better than Rakudo Parrot, mostly because rewriting NQP yet again can only improve it. It won't be the magical candy-vomiting unicorn panacaea that the Perl 6 marketing department wants to believe. It'll also take longer to reach stability than the marketing department wants to believe, and it'll use a lot more memory. A few microbenchmarks like tight loops of numeric code will look really good, but any program that exercises the parser (for example) will perform atrociously.</i></blockquote>
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As it turns out, just 2 months later, Rakudo/JVM is already 40x faster than Rakudo/Parrot for Solomon's use case, it's already passing about the same number of spectests as Rakudo/Parrot, which puts it about 2 months ahead of the schedule suggested publicly in May, and it's clearly not performing atrociously at parsing (because that was Solomon's use case). I only recall one bit of news about memory, which was a minibenchmark, and it showed Rakudo/JVM using twice as much.
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So, score one for the above commenter. (For now; I expect to revisit the issue of memory consumption on Rakudo VMs later this year.)
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In 2009 <a href="http://yesistilluseperl.blogspot.com/2009/08/parrot-even-runs-basic-programs.html?showComment=1249975161850#c6533761250394472828">I predicted Perl 6 would get to 6.0.0 and a generally robust state about a year from now</a>. While I think that estimate has turned out to be a little optimistic (by a year? two? -- I did not anticipate how things would pan out with Parrot, nor the negativity toward Perl 6 being voiced by some leaders in the Perl community which I suspect has had an effect) <b>I urge any monks who were ever interested in contributing to Perl 6 to come check it out again on the IRC channel <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/perl6">#perl6 on freenode</a>.</b> Hope to see you there. :)
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