On 8/29/22 11:50, Brad Gilbert wrote:
Actually Raku is faster to compile than Perl5. If you consider all of
the features it comes with.
For example, in Raku everything is an object with meta features. If you
add Moose or similar to Perl5 then the compile times will often take
longer than the equivalent Raku times.
That's not the only such feature that you have to add to Perl5 to get
feature parity.
Then you have to also realize that the Perl5 compiler has had since 1994
to get faster vs. 2015 for Raku.
I do adore Perl 6 (Raku). I almost completely
dropped Perl 5 when I got a load of P6's
subroutines. I program in Top Down and P5's
subs are a nightmare. I have one P5 program
I support that I have not ported yet.
As a beginner, my programs are rather simple.
If P6 being feature rich is part of the
problem, is there a way to tell P6's compiler
to back off a bit?
