[Melbourne-pm] perl6.org

Toby Corkindale toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au
Tue May 11 22:02:01 PDT 2010


On 12/05/10 14:09, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010, Toby Corkindale wrote:
>
>> They're not kidding about the performance of Perl6 being.. poor.. at
>> the moment:
>
> The good news is, they put almost no time into optimisation, so there's
> plenty of room for improvement :). I'm personally waiting for Rakudo
> Start (June, IIRC) before I give it another go.

How are the supporting libraries going?

I mean, if I want to try out Perl6, has anyone ported DBI, libwww, 
Text::CSV and XML::LibXML over yet?

I tried perldoc-ing on my new Rakudo build, but couldn't find anything 
that seemed to be perl6-ish.


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