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I'd much rather the Perl 6 compiler being able to infer when it is safe to use unboxed types

Yeah, that'd be cool. Let me know how you solve the halting problem.

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Re^2: High Performance Perl
by audreyt (Hermit) on May 26, 2005 at 14:35 UTC
    Sure. You solve it by doing whole-program analysis, and preferably restrict eval "" calls to not able to add ad-hoc bindings to Int.
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