hello, question: in raku, is there a faster solution than
say [+] lines long story; here is a thread i would like to reply to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/450799/shell-command-to-sum-integers-one-per-line because: * the perl5 answer is fast compared to the other dynamic langages * the shortest solution is very interesting: even if you have an average level in dc (i think i have one), this is not that easy to read the answer (commented in the post) dc -f infile -e '[+z1<r]srz1<rp' obvioulsy: raku would be my prefered answer with: seq 100000000 | perl6 -e 'say [+] lines' but ... seq 100000000 | time perl6 -e 'say [+] lines' 5000000050000000 perl6 -e 'say [+] lines' 1591,80s user 3,04s system 122% cpu 21:36,63 total seq 100000000 | time /usr/bin/perl6 -e 'say [+] lines' 5000000050000000 /usr/bin/perl6 -e 'say [+] lines' 2171,01s user 4,64s system 129% cpu 28:04,73 total when perl6 -v This is Rakudo version 2019.03.1 built on MoarVM version 2019.03 implementing Perl 6.d. /usr/bin/perl6 -v This is Rakudo version 2018.12 built on MoarVM version 2018.12 implementing Perl 6.d. regards marc