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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by petre on Saturday October 12, 2019 @03:21AM (#21231229)
I sure hope it will be faster because in my own tests it's slower than Tcl. And I've tested at least two releases a year since october 2016 when the stable Rakudo came out.

Ruby 2.5 has a jit which uses the C compiler to generate dynamically linked objects. It looks more like a workaround but it produces fast code. Then there's Jruby, Rubinius, Truffle, mruby. Crystal too, which is a different language but yet similar. No need to learn Go. Just take your Ruby background and pretty much start using it for writing Crystal.

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by jashmatthews on Saturday October 12, 2019 @04:38AM (#21231536)
The CRuby 2.6 JIT using gcc or clang improves some benchmarks but makes real applications slower, sadly.

Thankfully JRuby already has a functioning JIT and TruffleRuby is getting very close to a 1.0 release.

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