So you're saying that it's ok if people wouldn't want to upgrade on the
basis of one of the improvements, but rather that the aggregation of all
of them had damn well better be worth upgrading for. Fair enough. But
hey, people won't even upgrade to 5.6; when someone asks me "why should
I upgrade t
Steve Fink writes:
> I just don't know if I'd bother to switch to Perl6 for a 10% speedup
Speed will *not* be the only reason to switch to perl6. It will (might)
have:
- bytecode compilation
- compile-time checking
- a rational stdlib
- vastly simpler extension mechanism
You can focus on an
Nathan Torkington wrote:
>
> And there's no law that says some areas can't run *faster* than 10%.
"...where all the children are above average.". 10% across the board
demands that, unless you overclock by 10%. :-)
> But I think we have to be realistic. We all want a programming
> language that
