Yeah, fair enough, I get your point. ;-)

To be a bit more specific, let me just outline the work done on performance. I'll split this work into two tracks.

Just about every week, someone from the core development team improves the speed of this or that specific feature (actually, often 3 or 4 features per week). Of course such a change does not improve the speed of programs not using that specific feature. But, with time, many features are improved and it becomes increasingly likely that your specific program will benefit from one of these feature performance enhancement.

Then, there is also more in-depth work going on on the Rakudo compiler / MoarVM optimizer (including JIT optimizing). This can significantly improve performance of almost any program running long enough for the real time optimizer to kick in. Needless to say, this type of thing is pretty complicated and needs heavy testing. As far as I know, very good results have already been achieved, but they haven't found their way yet into packaged production releases. So, at this point, you would probably need to download development programs and to build Rakudo / Moar VM and related environment to be able to test these improvements. I don't have any specific information, but I hope these enhancements will probably make their way into a production release relatively soon (but I don't know when).

You can get more detailed information on these subjects here: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/.

In reply to Re^5: Reasons for Using Perl 6 by Laurent_R
in thread Reasons for Using Perl 6 by aartist

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