Author Archives: jnthnwrthngtn

Vienna.pm have funded me to work 50 hours on Perl 6. After some discussion, we decided I would first work on improving the thread pool scheduler, and then move on to continuing the work around non-blocking await, a feature of the upcoming Perl … Continue reading →

It’s been a good while since I posted part 1 of this little series. In the meantime, I paid a visit to the Swiss Perl Workshop, situated in a lovely hotel in the beautiful village of Villars. Of course, I was working … Continue reading →

Over the last weeks I’ve had the chance to work full time on Perl 6, and have dedicated this time to improving the MoarVM specializer. Since “specializer” is such a lot to type, but shortening it to “spec” would result … Continue reading →

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 →

A few weeks back, I put out a call for funding. So far, two generous individuals have stepped up to help, enabling me to spend much more time on Perl 6 than would otherwise have been possible. First in line … Continue reading →

Note for regular 6guts readers: this post isn’t about Perl 6 guts themselves, but rather about seeking funding for my Perl 6 work. It is aimed at finding medium-size donations from businesses who are interested in supporting Perl 6, Rakudo, … Continue reading →