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.