Wow.

Posted Jul 30, 2010 0:27 UTC (Fri) by chromatic (guest, #26207)
In reply to: Wow. by dskoll
Parent article: The first Rakudo Star release

That Perl 6 executable is a thin C wrapper around uncompressed (and unoptimized) Parrot bytecode. It doesn't compare directly to the Perl 5 binary at all.

Wow.

Posted Jul 30, 2010 0:43 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

Let's assume that the final Perl 6 release is N times larger than Perl 5, starts up M times as slowly, and uses P times as much memory after initialization. What's your best guess as to the values of N, M and P in the first production release? Huge bonus if they're less than 1.0 :)

Wow.

Posted Jul 30, 2010 1:17 UTC (Fri) by chromatic (guest, #26207) [Link]

Those are difficult estimates. I could see worthwhile targets being 2.0 for each of them, though I'd like to get startup time to 1.0 or less. It's possible to get memory consumption below 1.0, but that'll require more work in Parrot.