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Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by Mithaldu on Saturday November 14, 2015 @06:21AM (#10565310)
He does call it a "compiler" in the video. Maybe that's temporary while it's still unoptimized, or a change in direction?
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Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by eric_the_read on Saturday November 14, 2015 @11:56AM (#10566289)
Perl5 historically has compiled to bytecode and then interpreted the bytecode. I imagine that's what's going on here.
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