From jraspass at gmail.com Tue Jan 12 01:17:40 2016 From: jraspass at gmail.com (James Raspass) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:17:40 +0000 Subject: [Fleet-pm] First Mongers of 2016! Message-ID: 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. :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jraspass at gmail.com Tue Jan 12 01:23:30 2016 From: jraspass at gmail.com (James Raspass) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:23:30 +0000 Subject: [Fleet-pm] First Mongers of 2016! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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 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. :-) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: