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I think Raku is still quite a bit slower. But I am not up-to-date with the latest state. However, this is "just" a matter of optimization of the interpreter ove
by G3rn0ti 6y ago
I think Raku is still quite a bit slower. But I am not up-to-date with the latest state. However, this is "just" a matter of optimization of the interpreter over time. It's just that Perl 5's interpreter had a head start of more than 25 years.
- vram22 6y agoYes, that is possible. Java was dead slow early on (I first used it soon after it came out, and pioneered use of servlets in my company at the time), but after Sun's management threw millions of dollars and high-end tech people at the problem, it got fast enough for many uses in a few years, what with the Hotspot VM and JIT tech and so on.
- vram22 6y agoSorry, the millions of dollars was mostly for marketing (which is largely what led to its huge adoption), but at least some of that money would have been used to hire top people like computer science compiler specialist PhDs to work on making it faster. I had read about that at around that time.