Re: rakudo-current loop 2-3 orders of magnitude slower than perl 5?

Hi, thanks for the replies! I have a better understanding of these performance issues now. (sidenote: replacing $i++ with $i = $i + 1 in my original example gives a 4 times speed up). Hi Chris, In addition to Patrick's excellent reply, I'd like to mention that one way to help the project

rakudo-current loop 2-3 orders of magnitude slower than perl 5?

4.0/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.0.0 --with-slibdir=/usr/ lib --build=i686-apple-darwin9 --with-arch=apple --with-tune=generic -- host=i686-apple-darwin9 --target=i686-apple-darwin9 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465) [1] http://www.heise.de/ix/ --- Chris M