Re: Finding and fixing Perl 6 bugs

2016-02-03 Thread Siavash
On 2016-02-03 06:47:23 IRST, Tom Browder wrote: > Perl 5 (and I believe 6) uses the weird (to me) rt.perl.org bug system and > I have so far found no instructions on how to use it. There is the program > perlbug for Perl 5 but no reference I can find on using it for Perl 6. I > have an account o

Re: Finding and fixing Perl 6 bugs

2016-02-03 Thread Timo Paulssen
AFAICT we usually recommend people report bugs via mail to rakudo...@perl.org Here's the places i could find (by targeted search, of course) that tell people to do it like that: - http://perl6.org/getting-started/ in the "side track", - http://rakudo.org/tickets/ - rakudo.org -> "bug tracker", -

Re: run "...", :out forgetting about the exit code?

2016-02-03 Thread Siavash
Nitpick: 'use strict' is the default. On 2016-02-03 03:07:18 IRST, Peter Pentchev wrote: > [roam@straylight ~]$ perl6 -e 'use v6.c; use strict; my $p = run "false"; say > $p.exitcode;'

A practical benchmark shows speed challenges for Perl 6

2016-02-03 Thread Tom Browder
I use Perl for heavy duty text processing. A question on Perl Monks about Perl 5's handling of a large input file got me wondering how the two Perls compare at the moment. I wrote a couple of simple programs, in both languages, to write and read a 10 Gb text file filled with identical 100-characte

Re: A practical benchmark shows speed challenges for Perl 6

2016-02-03 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 03 Feb 2016, at 14:59, Tom Browder wrote: > I use Perl for heavy duty text processing. A question on Perl Monks > about Perl 5's handling of a large input file got me wondering how the > two Perls compare at the moment. > > I wrote a couple of simple programs, in both languages, to write and

Re: A practical benchmark shows speed challenges for Perl 6

2016-02-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: >> On 03 Feb 2016, at 14:59, Tom Browder wrote: >> I use Perl for heavy duty text processing. A question on Perl Monks >> about Perl 5's handling of a large input file got me wondering how the >> two Perls compare at the moment. ... > Is

Re: A practical benchmark shows speed challenges for Perl 6

2016-02-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > Is the code available somewhere? Would love to try some optimizations on it. Liz, code is in public pastes in Pastebin. Links are here: 1. The master Perl 6 script to run the tests: http://pastebin.com/MDmumWq0 2-3. The two file cr

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.01

2016-02-03 Thread Tobias Leich
# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.01 ## A useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the January 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the Janua

Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-03 Thread James E Keenan
I am evidently confused as to the relationship, if any, between the 'rakudobrew' utility and the Rakudo::Star distribution. Several weeks ago, when it became apparent that there would be delays in the release of a Rakudo Star distribution with the "Christmas" release in it, I executed the foll

Re: Confused about rakudobrew and Rakudo Star

2016-02-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:30 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > I am evidently confused as to the relationship, if any, between the > 'rakudobrew' utility and the Rakudo::Star distribution. In short: rakudobrew is for the folks who want to track the rapid development of Rakudo. Star is for folks who w