🚀 go-pugleaf

:-> In gnu.misc.discuss, bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
:In article <3989s0$1jf@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> writes:
:   someone writes:
:   :The idea
:   :that you can choose the environment you want.  If you like Perl, use
:   :it.  If people like it enough, there may be a Perl->GNU Extension Lang
:   :compiler, so that you can write your extensions in Perl.
:
:   Why ever would you want it to run slower? ...
:
:You wouldn't; do you have any evidence that converting to GEL would
:make it run slower?

Since no such beast exist, evidence must at best be circumstantial and
inferred.  But similar cases (where you translate a program language X to
language Y) nearly always should worse performance than those which start
out in language Y.  Counterexamples, albeit not non-existent, are at best
scarce.  It would take a lot of work to pass on the optimizations of the
perl byte compiler and its byte-code interpreter all the way to the target
language.

--tom
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Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com

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