So you're saying that it's ok if people wouldn't want to upgrade on the
basis of one of the improvements, but rather that the aggregation of all
of them had damn well better be worth upgrading for. Fair enough. But
hey, people won't even upgrade to 5.6; when someone asks me "why should
I upgrade t
Steve Fink writes:
> I just don't know if I'd bother to switch to Perl6 for a 10% speedup
Speed will *not* be the only reason to switch to perl6. It will (might)
have:
- bytecode compilation
- compile-time checking
- a rational stdlib
- vastly simpler extension mechanism
You can focus on an
Nathan Torkington wrote:
>
> And there's no law that says some areas can't run *faster* than 10%.
"...where all the children are above average.". 10% across the board
demands that, unless you overclock by 10%. :-)
> But I think we have to be realistic. We all want a programming
> language that
Steve Fink writes:
> I just wonder if a 10% improvement on some benchmark is worth writing a
> new language for. A 100% improvement on a single "representative
> real-world task" would be a lot more persuasive. But much more
> convincing would be allowing perl to be embedded as a scripting languag
> > > 1.Benchmarks of text processing programs show improved performance on
> > perl6 over perl5.
> >
> > Yes, but how much improved? Is 50% in everyone's minds, or is 10%
> > enough? How much improvement is feasible?
>
> As a first approximation to what is realistic, I'm going to put 10%
J. David Blackstone writes:
> I think the success criteria on http://dev.perl.org/pm/pos.html
> should be more measurable.
You're right. I was happy to have simply avoided "better" and "good",
the classic unmeasurable words :-) I kept "faster" and "easier", two
similarly unpinnable words, th
J David Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think the success criteria on http://dev.perl.org/pm/pos.html
> should be more measurable.
>> SUCCESS CRITERIA
>> 1. Benchmarks of text processing programs show improved performance on
> perl6 over perl5.
> Yes, but how much improved? Is
I think the success criteria on http://dev.perl.org/pm/pos.html
should be more measurable.
> SUCCESS CRITERIA
> 1.Benchmarks of text processing programs show improved performance on
perl6 over perl5.
Yes, but how much improved? Is 50% in everyone's minds, or is 10%
enough? How much i
