On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 09:23 jn...@jnthn.net via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 03:27:55 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > > On Sat Oct 22 04:24:15 2016, tbrowder wrote: > > > See <https://github.com/tbrowder/perl6-read-write-tests> for a suite > > > of tests that show the differences. > > > > Suite has been updated considerably. > > In a benchmark on my local machine, after many improvements, I now see > Perl 6 coming out slightly ahead of Perl 5 when the UTF-8 encoding is being > used: ... > The situation with ASCII/latin-1 is still not quite so rosy: > ... > Though that's now down to a factor of 3.5x, which is hugely better than > the factor of 9 or 10 before. > > What are the conditions for resolving this issue? Clearly the UTF-8 case > is good enough because Perl 6 is winning there, but "much slower" is a bit > subjective, so hard to know when we're there (unless we somehow manage to > win in the ASCII case too...) :-) > Jonathan, thanks for your continued work in this area. I agree that "much slower" is not very specific. Unless you are aware of some code remaining to work on someday, I guess we are at the "good enough" point, especially given that p6 is beating p5 in urf8! Let me run my tests again to see how it "feels" in my world. Best, -Tom
