On 11/15/18, Richard Hainsworth <rnhainswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are two styles in Perl 6 to code this and my question is whether > one is more efficient (speed/memory) than the other. > First, define efficiency. Which is cheaper, computer time or programmer time? Is whatever is being considered a constraint of any kind, or is it fast enough?
We can use interpreted scripts to cat files, because the display takes so much more time than the interpretation, while graphics operations have to run so fast, so often,, they require C compiled for special processors.
