<div dir="ltr">I think for the goals you listed, the timing would be good for getting involved in v5 on mvm using 6model effort.<div><br></div><div>When coding MoarVM, the group working on it switched from APR to libuv. I don't get the idea that there was anything wrong with APR. But that libuv's async io wound up being a better fit. 6model is the metaobject layer (similar to Moose). v5 is the Perl5 grammar a couple people are working on to run Perl5 on the infrastructure being built for Perl6. The Rakudo Perl efforts seems to have been picking up steam and adding developers over the last year. Probably a good time to start hanging out on #perl6.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://6guts.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://6guts.wordpress.com/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Teal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ironicface@earthlink.net" target="_blank">ironicface@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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    Well, it sounds interesting.<br>
    How much time would it take per "x" cycle, and how many times would
    my brain explode per cycle?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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      <div dir="ltr">1: the team gets very familiar with APR<br>
        <div class="gmail_extra">2: the team gets very familiar with
          Perl internals</div>
        <div class="gmail_extra">3: Perl (the language) gets abstracted
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        <div class="gmail_extra">I'm not sure if any of those meet the
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            Teal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ironicface@earthlink.net" target="_blank">ironicface@earthlink.net</a>></span>
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                <div>What would the advantages be?<br>
                  Besides sheer geek bravado display  :)<br>
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                      Anyone for creating a fork of Perl that uses APR
                      for platform abstraction (instead of native Perl
                      platform abstraction?)
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