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by BoingBoomTschak
540 days ago
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>Finally, if you want fast startup, don't use a scripting language. Huh? Isn't startup speed one of the points of simpler, less optimized interpretation strategies? I mean, unless you compare it to AOT compilation, which is another story.
Those numbers show that Perl and Tcl, both "full featured" scripting languages, don't have the least issue on the matter. I'm not the kind to freely rain on parades, especially when Raku is already not a popularity king, but I don't think my use of the word "disaster" was unfounded, even if not "very nice". |
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Anybody using modern Perl will most likely also use Moose, and probably big integers as well. If you compare startup times with Perl / Moose / big integers with Rakudo (on the same Intel hardware as before):
% time perl -MMoose -Mbigint -e '' real 0.20s user 0.14s sys 0.02s
% time rakudo -e '' real 0.16s user 0.15s sys 0.04s
And suddenly, Raku starts up faster than Perl! Because Raku comes with a Moose like object system and big integers out of the box, it doesn't need to do anything special to give you those features.
So in a way, you're comparing apples with oranges when you're just comparing bare startup times. Because you are not considering the feature set you get with a bare startup.
So your remark was definitely NOT very nice.