Wed, 01 Sep 2010
Perl6 - Rakudo
I have installed Fedora 14 Alpha in a virtual machine in order to
test emerging technologies like systemd and Perl 6.
I have not tried the Perl 6 language features yet, just did several
small performance tests:
[root@nausicaa ~]# time perl -e 1
real 0m0.029s
user 0m0.012s
sys 0m0.018s
[root@nausicaa ~]# time perl6 -e 1
real 0m2.773s
user 0m2.137s
sys 0m0.635s
[root@nausicaa ~]# time perl -e 'for (1..10_000) { 42; }'
real 0m0.027s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m0.019s
[root@nausicaa ~]# time perl6 -e 'for (1..10_000) { 42; }'
real 0m7.705s
user 0m6.779s
sys 0m0.922s
I know Rakudo Perl is not optimized yet, but taking over two seconds just to start the interpreter makes it unusable even for playing and trying.
2 replies for this story:
Peter Kruty wrote: hmm
Interesting, I played with rakudo like 8-9 months ago and it certainly was not so bad with performance. What I was frustrated from was the mismatch between documentation and implementation. When I checked on IRC, guys basically confirmed, that implementation is and will be different, just documentation is outdated. It's fairly difficult to play with Perl 6 and enjoy it, if something is not implemented yet and something is implemented differently and it's not always obvious which is the case.
himdel wrote: hmm
Hmm, I'd say the documentation got much better recently, there's a lot of tutorials floating around. And feature-wise, I'm pretty excited, especially since most of it works *NOW* (well, now + 15s :D). But yeah, the speed sucks and loadin perl5 modules is not supported yet :(.