Tales of Raku guts hacking
The first Raku Core Summit, a gathering of folks who work on core Raku things, was held on the first weekend of June, and I was one of those invited to attend. It s certainly the case that I ve been a Continue reading
Around 18 months ago, I set about working on the largest set of architectural changes that Raku runtime MoarVM has seen since its inception. The work was most directly triggered by the realization that we had no good way to Continue reading
I recently wrote about the new MoarVM dispatch mechanism, and in that post noted that I still had a good bit of Raku s multiple dispatch semantics left to implement in terms of it. Since then, I ve made a decent amount of Continue reading
My goodness, it appears I m writing my first Raku internals blog post in over two years. Of course, two years ago it wasn t even called Raku. Anyway, without further ado, let s get on with this shared brainache. What is dispatch? Continue reading
I d like to thank everyone who voted for me in the recent Raku Steering Council elections. By this point, I ve been working on the language for well over a decade, first to help turn a language design I found fascinating Continue reading
This evening, I enjoyed the New Year s fireworks display over the beautiful Prague skyline. Well, the bit of it that was between me and the fireworks, anyway. Rather than having its fireworks display at midnight, Prague puts it at 6pm Continue reading
Recently, a Perl 6 object creation benchmark result did the rounds on social media. This Perl 6 code: class Point { has $.x; has $.y; } my $total = 0; for ^1_000_000 { my $p = Point.new(x = 2, y = 3); Continue reading
MoarVM s optimizer can perform speculative optimization. It does this by gathering statistics as the program is interpreted, and then analyzing them to find out what types and callees typically show up at given points in the program. If it spots Continue reading
My work on Perl 6 performance continues, thanks to a renewal of my grant from The Perl Foundation. I m especially focusing on making common basic operations faster, the idea being that if those go faster than programs composed out of them also Continue reading
What s the most common type your Perl 6 code uses? I ll bet you that in most programs you write, it ll be Scalar. That might come as a surprise, because you pretty much never write Scalar in your code. But in: my $a = Continue reading