Re^8: Perl 6 and performance

Depends on the area you look at. But what does that have to do with Perl 6 (which, again, is a language, and not a compiler) being ignorant of prior art?

Your criticism comes out like saying "C is not <adjective>" because a C compiler you happen to have worked with isn't <adjective>. Which isn't very educated at all.

I'm happy to revise my decision if you can come up with several examples that illustrates where the Perl 6 designers are ignorant of prior art.

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Re^9: Perl 6 and performance by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 09, 2012 at 20:15 UTC
I'm happy to revise my decision if you can come up with several examples that illustrates where the Perl 6 designers are ignorant of prior art. You're drawing a very fine distinction between somewhat disjoint groups: Perl 6 designers, Perl 6 implementors, and Parrot implementors. Outside of #perl6 and perhaps #parrot, no one cares about this distinction. In truth, that finger pointing is one big reason for my disillusion with the whole thing.	[reply]
Re^9: Perl 6 and performance by Anonymous Monk on Feb 10, 2012 at 14:55 UTC
For a common programmer. Perl 6 means a program that runs everything as defined in the Perl 6 manual. Very few people would bother to know the difference between a specification and implementation.	[reply]
Re^10: Perl 6 and performance by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 10, 2012 at 15:03 UTC
I know, but I expect better from somebody who calls himself "educated", has contributed to the VM and arroaches to call the involved people "ignorant". I also honestly don't see why that distinction is so hard to grasp. After all C is also a language, and there are many well-known compilers (GCC, MSVC, ICC, ...), and most programmers are aware of that fact. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]
Re^11: Perl 6 and performance by Anonymous Monk on Feb 11, 2012 at 03:00 UTC
Frankly speaking as per most people gcc runs the whole c programming language. They don't really care how c implementation is different than specification.	[reply]
Re^12: Perl 6 and performance by Anonymous Monk on Feb 11, 2012 at 09:44 UTC
Re^13: Perl 6 and performance by Anonymous Monk on Feb 11, 2012 at 10:04 UTC
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Re^9: Perl 6 and performance by educated_foo (Vicar) on Feb 09, 2012 at 20:18 UTC
Okay, let's try to be "technically correct" (the best kind!). I'll choose my favorite C or Java compiler -- you choose your favorite Perl 6 compiler. Does it do profile-guided optimization? Polymorphic inline caches? Real-time garbage collection? Can you even explain these things? Yeah, I didn't think so. Please see GCC and Sun's Java for prior art.	[reply]


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