50% slowdown in t/compilers/opsc/02-parse-all-ops.t ?

Jonathan "Duke" Leto jonathan at leto.net
Tue Mar 15 04:58:29 UTC 2011


Howdy,

>> What are the implications of this for, say, Rakudo's startup and execution
>> times?
>
> Rakudo does not make use of this code under normal execution. It might
> be possible to get ahold of the slowed ops parsing code and call that
> from a Rakudo program, but that is the only situation in which a
> Rakudo program would be slowed by these changes (and I'd say they'd be
> asking for it at that point).

Just trying to clarify:

Is it safe to say that this slowdown is only in the compilation of Parrot,
and not in the runtime of Parrot or any HLLs?

Duke

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