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Re^2: Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler

by chromatic (Archbishop)
on Aug 13, 2012 at 16:08 UTC ( [id://987144]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler
in thread Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler

The essential code-paths within the Perl compiler/interpreter itself are already well-identified and are optimized.

That may be true (it isn't, but it's at least plausible) if you take into account the current design of the Perl 5 VM. Unfortunately, the current design of the Perl 5 VM makes some assumptions which preclude performance.

It's enlightening to run some of the silly microbenchmarks people use for competitive benchmarking to see exactly why Perl 5 scales so badly on some of them. (See also my response on compact, typed arrays.)

Certainly, there are bona-fide edge cases, throughout the Perl system and its libraries, that are properly handled right now with “XS” code, in C or C++.

Cases also exist where writing XS will make your code slower—and I don't mean writing inefficient XS.

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