A Review of Perl 6

Re:A Review of Perl 6 by wott on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:31PM (#15005059)

Yes, I haven't tried lately, but for my own small text manipulation program, Perl 6 was still more than 100 times slower than Perl 5 the last time I tried. Probably because of some JIT delaying the startup time. But since my use is calling small programs, it was a no go for me; and after one year it had not improved a bit.

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by visarga on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:52PM (#15005158)

Many string and dictionary based operations seem to work faster in Perl5 than Python for me.

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by Steeeve on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:45AM (#15007162)

Perl5 string and hash performance was always top notch.

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by wott on Sunday August 13, 2017 @07:39PM (#15005626)

The Perl 5 version was indeed also 3 to 4 times faster than the Python one.

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Re:A Review of Perl 6 by issaria on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:18AM (#15007879)

Did you compare to python2 or python3, cause python3 is in the same league as perl6.

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