> On 17 Jun 2017, at 13:12, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 23:47 Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there some measurements regarding the speed of Rakudo? > > Perl 6 is still very slow on IO compared to Perl 5. I have a > read/write test suite I've been using since 2014 and it shows little > improvement so far (Perl 6 takes about 10-20 times as long as Perl 5 > to read the same size ASCII file). Jonathan is planning to work on > that aspect of Rakudo soon. > > The test suite is at: > > https://github.com/tbrowder/perl6-read-write-tests
AFAIK, Jonathan has already done extensive work on that the past days, but deemed it too ‘new’ to release for 2017.06 (due today). So expect to see quite a bit of improvement for 2017.07, especially on UTF-8 encoded text files. Liz
