APM: Optimizing perl compiler
Will Braswell
wbraswell at hush.com
Mon Aug 13 13:36:11 PDT 2012
Reini, Mark Lehmann is now the Vice President of the Austin Perl
Mongers. I assume he will be at the September 26th meeting unless he
has some other pre-existing plans.
Mark, we await your confirmation of availability for the September
meeting.
Thanks,~ Will
On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Reini Urban wrote:On
08/13/2012 03:16 PM, Will Braswell wrote:
> Reini,
>
> Thank you very much for both your private technical reply, as well
as
> the open reply to Austin Perl Mongers.
>
> We would love to have you as the primary presenter at our September
> meeting, which is scheduled for 8pm on Wednesday September 26th.
>
> Does that date and time work for you?
Sure, I'll come.
Can you also ask Marc Lehmann to come, if possible.
He has the most insight of all p5 developers.
> On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Reini Urban wrote:
>
> Your new president Will posted something about his overly
ambitious
> goal
> for YAPC::US 2013 in beautiful Austin (Yeah!) on perlmonks
> (http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=987033).
>
> I am the maintainer of the perl compiler B::C/B::CC,
> Mark Lehmann is the only significant other perl dev with a
compiler,
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Faster.
> I moved to Houston to work full-time on the compiler last year,
which
> became stable in December 2012 with version 1.42.
>
> I thought we will should discuss such an effort and ideas in one
of the
> next Austin.pm meetings.
>
> cPanel is using the non-optimizing compiler B::C in production
for
> several years with 5.6, and will switch soon to the latest B::C
version
> with 5.14.
>
> B::CC or other efforts can only profit from an optionally
tighter
> language, with const and types. I prepared some nice and easy
proposals
> already. See http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=987125
> But I'm not confident that p5p wants to discuss this at all. So
I'm not
> too optimistic to get const or type support at all to be able to
> optimize perl.
>
> The fallback plan is to use something like perl 7 which looks
like
> this:
> http://www.qore.org/
> The current XS API might have to go, as XS function calls should
not
> pick up their args from a perl array, rather from the C run-time
stack.
> Several ideas were outlined here:
> http://corehackers.perl.org/wiki/index.php5?title=Main_Page
>
> In October I'm there for the Austin Film Festival, but my
schedule is
> tight because there are many good films not to miss. So
September would
> be best. August is full with p5 meetings in Europe.
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