> I'm all in favor of converting things that are complex in PIR to things > that are simple in Perl 6 ... but why convert things that boil down to a > single instruction in PIR into complex things in Perl 6? Especially > since the complex Perl 6 code is highly likely to run a couple orders of > magnitude slower? > > Lesson from the Forth world: In cases where the semantic of a high-level > word exactly (or very closely) matches an instruction in the hardware's > ISA, it really deserves to be a primitive. > > > -'f >
Yeah, the main reason I did it was because it was on the rakudo wiki for candidates for the setting. -- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com
