Having closely followed these threads, plus based on some private correspondence, my gut reaction is that there is no system discussed so far which meets all of the following criteria:
- handles all (or practically all) existing Perl syntax and semantics;
- doesn't require modification of existing Perl source (e.g. requiring you to add type declarations);
- provides an order-of-magnitude speed-up for general Perl code; (e.g. 5X rather than 10%);
- doesn't require a huge coding effort (of a similar magnitude to implementing parrot and perl6)
I'm not saying at this point that all of the proposals definitely fail these criteria; rather that no-one has yet explained any proposal to me in such a way that I have a real "Ooh I see how that might work!" epiphany; and my suspicion is that no-one ever will.
Dave.
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|