The Raku compiler is written in Raku (to an extent) so no it can't be toned down. I've been out of the loop for a while, but there has been work to make the compiler use a better design which should be more optimizable.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 2:01 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > 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? > > > > >
