Monthly Archives: September 2018

MoarVM’s optimizer can perform speculative optimization. It does this by gathering statistics as the program is interpreted, and then analyzing them to find out what types and callees typically show up at given points in the program. If it spots … Continue reading →

My work on Perl 6 performance continues, thanks to a renewal of my grant from The Perl Foundation. I’m especially focusing on making common basic operations faster, the idea being that if those go faster than programs composed out of them also … Continue reading →