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by raiph 4180 days ago
> Has the situation gotten better since 2010?

Not really. Startup uses about the same RAM. It's about 10x faster.

The best docs I know about performance would be http://pmichaud.com/2012/pres/yapcna-perflt/slides/slide17.h... and http://jnthn.net/papers/2014-yapceu-performance.pdf#page=72

> "... all the missing features required to bring Perl 6 up to production-level."

The latest story is that the last major missing features (Unicode grapheme-by-default and native arrays) will land in the next few months and Perl 6 will be declared "officially ready for production use" by the end of 2015.