Red-Black Trees in Perl 6 Explained

Posted on February 17, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

I’ve started digging around with Perl 6 again and I’m quite pleasantly surprised. As you can see, Perl 6 is just about feature-complete. The main obstacle to using it is probably performance. When I previously checked it was 20 times slower than Perl 5, now it’s only 4 times slower and catching up rapidly. Jonathan Worthington’s port to the JVM is going well and Nick Clark mentions that initial tests on one (admittedly small) benchmark show it significantly faster than Perl 5!. With Perl 5 already being the fastest widely used dynamic language, this might be the key to Perl 6 being ready for prime time.

2013-02-17 by Ovid

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