Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

[Russ Allbery]

Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> not a good sign but we may need to take the hit to support overloading
> any function and supporting TIL and threads. i think a %20 hit to get
> those working cleanly might be a decent tradeoff.

I don't.  I'd find it to be a really good reason to learn Python.

> the TIL speedup over pure interpretation might win that back and
> more.

If that's true, that's a different ballgame of course.

If at all possible, Perl 6 should be *faster* than Perl 5.  Perl is
already too slow IMO.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>