[perl #120656] [jvm] InvalidArgumentException when creating a large hash with =>

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Sun Dec 01 22:30:31 2013, dagur wrote:
> 21:51 <dagurval> r: my @a = ^512; my %b = @a; my %c = eval %b.perl;
> 21:51 <camelia> rakudo-jvm 874e35:
> OUTPUT«java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bad
>                 parameter count 259␤  in block  at eval_0:1␤  in sub eval at
>                 gen/jvm/CORE.setting:684␤  in block  at /tmp/0ovfYy8OzU:1␤
> in any
>                 eval at gen/jvm/stage2/NQPHLL.nqp:1086␤  in any evalfiles at
>                 gen/jvm/stage2/NQP…»
> 21:51 <camelia> ..rakudo-parrot 874e35: ( no output )
> 
> Note that the output of %b.perl uses =>
> 
> Creating a large hash using , works.

Current behavior on the JVM is that this chews up 6.5 CPUs or so for at least 
10s of minutes.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda