On 04/22/2011 01:33 AM, gvim wrote: > Do I take it that the Perl 6 binary is, by design, much larger than the > current Perl 5.12 (1.6Mb)
No, we didn't design either the language or the compiler with the goal of having a large executable. And I seem to recall we already had a similar discussion on #perl6, regarding executing speed. Cheers, Moritz