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by 3rdAccount 2901 days ago
Running grammars past very large datasets. You hear enough people talk about the performance and you decide to stay away a bit until things improve. I also have some numeric code and that is generally probably not a great P6 fit (more of a Python + Numpy thing).

As a general scripting language, P6 looks nice as a lot of features such as concurrency that are aren't super straightforward (Ex: python) seem to be dead simple in P6.
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b2gills 2901 days ago
Perl 6 was designed in part to allow PDL (Perl Data Language) type features to be added easily.

In fact some things that you would do in PDL have already been added, they just currently aren't as fast as they could be.

    (1,2,3; 4,5,6; 7,8,9) »**» 2
    (1,4,9; 16,25,36; 49,64,81)
The above is specifically allowed to do all of the operations in parallel, but doesn't currently. (Perhaps even on a GPU)
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