Re: anything faster than say [+] lines?

[Elizabeth Mattijsen]

> On 28 Sep 2019, at 10:40, Marc Chantreux <e...@phear.org> wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
>> though that works here, admittedly, my p6 is sort old
>> This is Rakudo version 2018.03 built on MoarVM version 2018.03
>> implementing Perl 6.c.
> 
> this lead me test it with the docker rakudo-star (2019.03).
> 
>  time docker run rakudo-star bash -c 'seq 100000000|
>    perl6 -e ''slurp.split("\n")>>.Int.sum.say'''

slurp.lines.map(*.Int).sum.say

should make it a bit faster, at the expense of *much* more memory usage, as 
opposed to just.

In any case, to get the same result, you could also do

    (0..10_000_00).sum.say

which would come back instantaneously, regardless of the size of the range.