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can perl6 keep up with perl5??

can perl6 keep up with perl5??

Posted Apr 14, 2010 16:52 UTC (Wed) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
In reply to: can perl6 keep up with perl5?? by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Perl 5.12.0 released

neither of those tools are in the same league as dtrace


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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...

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