Monthly Archives: July 2017

Last week, I did some work to greatly decrease the size of call frames, also know as invocation records, in MoarVM. In theory, a call frame is created whenever a sub, method, regex, or block is entered. In reality, scopes … Continue reading →

Reading lines from a file and processing them one at a time is a hugely common scripting task. However, to date our performance at this task has been somewhat underwhelming. Happily, a grateful Perl 6 fan stepped up in response … Continue reading →