You can also suggest project ideas in the "issues" of the repo; someone else will have to pick them up and be willing to mentor them, though. Anyway, my 2¢ is that in the grand scheme of things, compile time is not that important. Look at rust.
El sáb, 30 ene 2021 a las 10:59, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users (< [email protected]>) escribió: > On 1/30/21 12:11 AM, JJ Merelo wrote: > > Hi, > > You probably know that GSoC is an annual event where Google provides > > grants for students to help develop new stuff in open source > > organizations. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > > <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/> > > We participated a couple of years ago, and got a lot of help for the > > documentation and other stuff. Last year our application didn't get > > through, so let's try again this year. > > We participate under the umbrella of the Perl Foundation, so it's Perl > > or Raku projects, or any other open source project that's written in any > > of these languages. > > in this phase, where we prepare the application, we need project ideas. > > https://github.com/perl-foundation-outreach/gsoc-2021-ideas > > <https://github.com/perl-foundation-outreach/gsoc-2021-ideas> Follow > the > > template in the main directory to propose something you'd be comfortable > > tutoring. Tutoring happens through summer, and it's ideally done by 2-3 > > people per project so that some can do the summer-y thing while the > > others help. > > What I want from you > > - Propose project ideas that can take a student (possibly with no prior > > idea of Raku) a summer to work on. It can be part of the core, but also > > modules you're working already with or some you want to work with. > > - Help as mentors. Mentors get their own T-Shirt and the appreciation > > from the whole community, and little in the way of monetary emoluments, > > but the Perl Foundation gets 2500€ (or $, don't remember exactly) per > > project, so you help not only further the goals of the project you're > > mentoring, but also the community at large. > > > > I've mentored in a couple of occasions, and it's an overall nice > > experience, plus you get to help Raku and also maybe yourself with some > > project you're familiar with. Getting involved is a win-win, for you and > > the community at large. > > > > Anything else you need to know, please ask. > > > > Cheers > > > > -- > > JJ > > > Hi JJ, > > Not something I can tutor on, but something I really, > really need fixed: the excessive compile time not > found it Perl 5. > > $ ls -al GetUpdates.pl6 > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 todd users 356600 Jan 30 01:34 GetUpdates.pl6 > > $ raku -c --stagestats GetUpdates.pl6 > Stage start : 0.000 > Stage parse : 17.851 > Stage syntaxcheck: Syntax OK > > Molasses slow > > > Here is Perl 5 > > $ ls -al GetUpdates.pl > -rwxrwxrwx. 1 todd users 208173 Apr 26 2019 GetUpdates.pl > > $ time perl -c GetUpdates.pl > GetUpdates.pl syntax OK > > real 0m0.305s > user 0m0.243s > sys 0m0.029s > > Lightning fast > > Many thanks, > -T > > > > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > -- JJ
