On: Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock

[ash_gti]

So, doing another simple change to my code brought the runtime down to a few ms. Doing:

  time yes | head -n1000000 | perl6 --profile -e 'for $*IN.readchars { .subst("y", "n").print }’ > /dev/null

says it took 86 ms. Which is pretty decent I’d say.

[smitherfield → ash_gti]

Sure, but that's still kinda defeating the purpose of providing functionality that's easy to remember and type. Might as well do

  time echo "#include <stdio.h>
  main(n){char*b,*s=n=0;getdelim(&s,&n,-1,stdin);for(b=s;*s;++s)*s=='y'&&*s='n';puts(b);}">s.c|yes|head -n1000000|tcc -w -run s.c>/dev/null

  real	0m0.028s
  user	0m0.023s
  sys	0m0.019s

28 milliseconds!

[ash_gti → smitherfield]

I was mostly just pointing out that perl6 might not be as slow as the comment you linked suggests. There seems to be something about using `perl6 -pe` that caused it to be slower than you’d expected. However, using a different approach its reasonably fast, or at least it appears reasonably comparable to the perl 5 example that was provided.

Hopefully more edge cases will be discovered and fixed as the implementation matures as well.