> On 03 Feb 2016, at 14:59, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use Perl for heavy duty text processing. A question on Perl Monks > about Perl 5's handling of a large input file got me wondering how the > two Perls compare at the moment. > > I wrote a couple of simple programs, in both languages, to write and > read a 10 Gb text file filled with identical 100-character lines. The > reading programs counted total lines and characters of the input file. > The results on my fastest host show that much optimization is still > needed for Perl 6. > > I compared read times for file sizes from one to 10 Gb in one-gigabyte > increments and, in general, Perl 6 takes roughly 30 times longer than > Perl 5.14 to read the same file. So far I see no significant > improvement in Rakudo 2016.01 over 2015.12, but the tests haven't > quite finished yet.
Is the code available somewhere? Would love to try some optimizations on it. Liz
