chromatic: Are you compiling it to native code now? I remember that being a suggestion a few days ago.

Autrijus: Pugs itself is compiled to native code; it is still evaluating Perl 6 AST, though.

chromatic: It's like Perl 5 in that sense then.

Autrijus: Yes, it's exactly like Perl 5. Have you read PA01?

chromatic: I have.

Autrijus: Cool. So yeah, it's like Perl 5 now. The difference is B::* is trivial to write in Pugs

chromatic: Except maintainable.

Autrijus: And yeah, there's the maintainable bit. Pugs is <4k lines of code. I think porting Pugs to Perl 6 will take about the same number of lines, too.