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A couple of other things that haven't been much highlighted: - Perl 6 right now runs very well on two back ends: a custom VM and the JVM. It is spinning up a
by jedharris 11y ago
A couple of other things that haven't been much highlighted:
- Perl 6 right now runs very well on two back ends: a custom VM and the JVM. It is spinning up a Javascript back end, I think primarily for NodeJS.
- Concrete representations are carefully separated from core semantics, so Perl 6 currently supports native values from C, Perl 5, Python, etc. It should be able to support native arrays as required for high performance scientific computing etc.
- mindcrime 11y agoWhatever happened to the ParrotVM? I always thought that it was somehow intrinsically tied up with Perl6.
- bmn_ 11y agohttp://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/02/goodnight-parrot.html http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/02/goodnight-parrot.h... https://www.ohloh.net/p/parrot https://www.ohloh.net/p/parrot (contributor graph at the bottom)
- rurban 11y agoThey switched to MoarVM, which was a simplier and much faster rebooted variant of Parrot to get a timely Perl6 release. But it is still open to use any VM as backend. Currently there are two in rakudo, in parrot can be re-added trivially, e.g. to support other architectures and a better threading model
- rurban 11y agoThey switched to MoarVM, which was a simplier and much faster rebooted variant of Parrot to get a timely Perl6 release. But it is still open to use any VM as backend. Currently there are two in rakudo, in parrot can be re-added trivially, e.g. to support other architectures and a better threading model