What performance increases can we expect as the Perl 6 implementations mature?
Another thing you have to understand about the lack of optimization is that it’s compounded. A large portion of Rakudo is written in Perl 6. So for example the [+] operator is implemented by the method Any.reduce (called with $expression set to &infix:<+>), which has as its inner loop for @.list { @args.push($_); if (@args … Read more