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Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by Scarbutt on Saturday November 14, 2015 @11:42AM (#10566222)
compile native executables

How does that work? is the moarvm bundled in the executable?

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Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by cygx on Saturday November 14, 2015 @11:53AM (#10566278)
It doesn't, no idea where the OP got that idea from. 'Fakecutables' bundling interpreter and bytecode might arrive in the future, though.
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Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by esaym on Saturday November 14, 2015 @12:28PM (#10566433)
I got it from here (page 33):

http://www.liz.nl/C-DayIsComingYAPCEU.pdf

So probably not "native" executables, but compiling and optimizing nonetheless.

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Re:Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] by cygx on Saturday November 14, 2015 @12:46PM (#10566501)
That refers to precompilation to MoarVM bytecode. You can do that manually right now, but eventually, a precompilation cache will be managed by Rakudo.
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