[Purdue-pm] Rakudo Perl 6

[Mark Senn]

Purdue Perl Mongers,

Rakudo Perl 6 continues to get more complete, bug-free, and faster.  I
like it much better than Perl 5 but don't suggest using it for
production code until it is more mature, unless you're an innovator or
early adopter (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations)
and have time to experiment with an immature technology.

I did some benchmarks for a Perl 6 program I use once a week.  Here are
the results:
    RAKUDO VERSION    PARROT VERSION    SPEED
    --------------    --------------    -----
    2012.05           4.4.0  rev 0      1
    2012.11           4.6.0  rev 0      1.10
    2012.12           4.10.0 rev 0      1.34

-mark