Building Perl 6

[Vytautas D]

>> (Are there any 8 core phones yet?)

Yep, for instance Samsung Galaxy Note 4 :) though it uses 4 at a time, like
laptops do.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 06:40:11PM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote:
> > https://github.com/tadzik/rakudobrew
> >
> > I'd recommend
> >
> > $ rakudobrew build moar_jit # just in time MoarVM
> > $ rakudobrew build-panda # like cpanm
> > $ panda install Task::Star # some useful modules
> >
> > It's a lot faster to build than even a few months back and (for a tiny
> > number of restricted and probably misleading benchmarks) faster than
>
> eg its startup is faster than perl -MMoose
> (so it can run "Hello World\n" in less time than Moose), but for runtime
> benchmarks "your mileage may vary".
>
> It does create threads faster than ithreads.
> But no-one sane would be using threads even on Rakudo, because it has much
> nicer concurrency abstractions.
>
> Which makes it easy to write code that uses more than one CPU core,
> including
> fanning computation out to multiple cores. Which starts to matter now that
> even phones are quad-core.
>
> (Are there any 8 core phones yet?)
>
> Nicholas Clark
>