Author Archives: jnthnwrthngtn

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 →

The latest MoarVM release, 2017.04, contains a significant improvement for multi-threaded applications, especially those that are CPU-bound. I mentioned the improvement briefly on Twitter, because it’s hard to be anything other than brief on Twitter. This post contains a decidedly … Continue reading →

We got a lot of nice stuff into Perl 6.c, the version of the language released on Christmas of 2015. Since then, a lot of effort has gone on polishing the things we already had in place, and also on … Continue reading →