I've been running a perl6 program that runs through a loop, dumps
intermediate results and starts again with new initialisation values.
The program runs fine for the first three loops, but does appear to slow
down and on the fourth time though hangs.
Looking at system resources, the program
Initially I though the following was a bug, but now I'm not sure.
I got these results
perl6 -v
This is perl6 version 2013.09 built on parrot 5.5.0 revision 0
$ perl6
say '0' xx 4
0 0 0 0
print '0' xx 4
print 's' ~ ('0' xx 4)
s0 0 0 0
I'm not sure why the elements of the expansion are
On 12/19/2013 3:47, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Initially I though the following was a bug, but now I'm not sure.
I got these results
perl6 -v
This is perl6 version 2013.09 built on parrot 5.5.0 revision 0
$ perl6
say '0' xx 4
0 0 0 0
Are you sure you didn't want the x (string repetition)
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:27:32AM +0800, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
I've been running a perl6 program that runs through a loop, dumps
intermediate results and starts again with new initialisation
values.
[...]
Looking at system resources, the program chews up memory resources
continually.
OK x not xx.
The doubling of operators is confusing.
Richard
On 12/19/2013 10:01 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
On 12/19/2013 3:47, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Initially I though the following was a bug, but now I'm not sure.
I got these results
perl6 -v
This is perl6 version 2013.09 built
