At 10:23 PM 9/4/2001 -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
>Efficiency is a real issue! I've got 30,000 lines of *.pm in my
>latest application -- another 40,000 come from CPAN. The lines
>of code run a good deal less, but it's still a pretty big chunk
>of Perl.
>
>The thought of my app suddenly running slower (possibly *much*
>slower after seeing the semantics of Perl 6 lexicals) doesn't
>make me real happy. IMHO it would fork the language, even if
>the fork was only done with pragmas.
I still have the "perl 6 must run faster than perl 5" mandate. Things
*will* be faster. Somehow. We may have to do Weird Magic (or I have to
convince Larry that demonstrated performance won't get any better) but I
think we can get there. I think we're going to have to sacrifice some
memory for it, though.
Dan
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