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by zoffix222 3228 days ago
Yes, performance is where most of the funding is currently going into.

Bleed commits on VM for example, recently passed Perl 5 on speed with read-a-million-line-file-and-sum-up-number-of-chars bench ( https://twitter.com/zoffix/status/895684203550973956 ).

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What are bleed commits?
The “cutting edge” of technology or craft is the newest / greatest stuff, pushing the field forward in new unexplored directions, by analogy to the cutting edge of a plow or a knife which slices through some uncut material or unbroken ground. I believe the metaphorical use of the term dates from the middle of the 20th century.

The “bleeding edge” is a more recent term for the same idea, emphasizing that being at the cutting edge might involve danger to yourself.

Commits that happened recently and aren't part of any release yet :)
Commits that would go into the bleeding edge builds