🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3nmj78$gc0@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>, tchrist@mox.perl.com 
says...
>
>In comp.lang.perl, 
>    charles@pop3.demon.co.uk (Charlie Stross) writes:
>:I have occasionally speculated about the usefulness of a small, 
>:stripped-down perl subset for use as an explicit awk replacement. 

  [ ... elided for brevity ... ]

>That's a whopping 0.0458 user seconds and 0.1422 system seconds per
>run.  Obviously this is too much overhead for a small program.
>
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I don't know if that's fast or slow, and in relation to what. I haven't 
had cause to complain, but this may be because I run mostly on a very 
lightly loaded i586.

If it were a valid question, however, would the miniperl used in the 
bootstrap phase be suitable for what the original author is asking? What 
would it take to make that generally useful?

I realize from the sarcasm in your response that this is perhaps a 
ridiculous request, but one that doesn't appear hard to fill.

Mike.