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can perl6 keep up with perl5??

can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 14, 2010 4:38 UTC (Wed) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
Parent article: Perl 5.12.0 released

i'm not aware of awesome features like dtrace probes being part of the perl6 stack (yet)

i'd like to see every major codebase instrumented for dtrace. there's nothing on linux like it.


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can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 14, 2010 4:56 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Take a look at ftrace and systemtap.

can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 14, 2010 16:52 UTC (Wed) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]

neither of those tools are in the same league as dtrace

can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 14, 2010 23:49 UTC (Wed) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]

Possibly, but Solaris's time has passed.

can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 15, 2010 5:08 UTC (Thu) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]

freebsd's hasn't

what is the only OS in the world you can use all of zsh, dtrace, grand central dispatch? freebsd

linux competing tech is either lame (systemtap) or alpha quality (btrfs)

can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 15, 2010 5:09 UTC (Thu) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]

s/zsh/zfs/

can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 15, 2010 5:42 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Have you even tried ftrace? Btrfs on-disk format has stabilized and is available as a option in most distributions and will become default in the next 6 months to an year. Fedora 13 for example will feature

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemRollbackWith...

can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 16, 2010 20:23 UTC (Fri) by clump (subscriber, #27801) [Link]

I wouldn't necessarily use FreeBSD as a success story, with strongholds like Yahoo beginning to deploy more Linux.

can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 15, 2010 9:52 UTC (Thu) by danpb (subscriber, #4831) [Link]

For userspace probing SystemTap is actually compatible with the DTrace probe markers format. Fedora 13 wires up the DTrace markers in Java, Python & PostgreSQL with SystemTap. The same could be done with this new support in Perl

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemtapStaticPr...

Perl 6 Can Keep Up with Perl 5

Posted Apr 14, 2010 8:54 UTC (Wed) by chromatic (guest, #26207) [Link]

I'm happy to work with anyone knowledgable and interested to support such probes in Parrot and languages running on Parrot. Find me or anyone else in #parrot on irc.parrot.org.

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