[Fleet-pm] First Mongers of 2016!

[James Raspass]

Whoops, that isn't the link for the business case for P6, this is
http://blogs.perl.org/users/jt_smith/2016/01/perl-6s-killer-app---async.html

That post is still quite interesting too, it shows some of the nice little
improvements over Perl 5.

On 12 January 2016 at 09:17, James Raspass <jraspass at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tomorrow will be Perl Mongers in the usual place, The Station.
>
> There's been a bit of Perl news since we last met:
>
> Perl 6, the spec, finally shipped. With latest version of Rakudo
> implementing Perl 6.c quite well, albeit slowly :-(
>
> There was a blog post about a possible business case for P6 -
> http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/why-in-the-world-would-anyone-use-perl-6.html
>
> Over in Perl 5 land, Dave Mitchell has proposed a patchset to massively
> speed up scope and sub entry -
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/01/msg233631.html .
>
> The email is a little technical but the upshot is, if this patchset was to
> be merged, Perl 5.24 would be 40% faster at entering a scope, think
> if/do/etc, and 23% faster at entering a sub.
>
> I think Yves sums it up best with the following quote:
>
> This is a really nice improvement. One of my pet peeves about Perl is
>> that properly modularized code is slow. Any patch which reduces the
>> cost of calling a sub is a good thing in my book. Ones that come with
>> implementation documentation are even better. :-)
>
>
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