Re:Brief History of JIT in MoarVM for Perl 6
by raiph on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @12:13PM
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Quoting the blog post this HN article is supposed to be about[1]:
PS: You might read this and be reasonably surprised that Rakudo Perl 6 is not, after all this, very fast yet. I have a - not entirely serious - explanation for that:
All problems in computer science can be solved with a layer of indirection.
Many layers of indirection make programs slow.
Perl 6 solves many computer science problems for you ;-)
In the future, we'll continue to solve those problems, just faster.
PS: You might read this and be reasonably surprised that Rakudo Perl 6 is not, after all this, very fast yet. I have a - not entirely serious - explanation for that:
All problems in computer science can be solved with a layer of indirection. Many layers of indirection make programs slow. Perl 6 solves many computer science problems for you ;-)
In the future, we'll continue to solve those problems, just faster.
[1] http://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2018/07/perl-6-on-moa...