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[Perl 6] A poll about VMs.
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| Hey! | |
| This is a poll about VMs for Perl 6. It would be awesome if you fill it, | |
| just write a comment with your answers or fork it and edit. | |
| I need it because I work on a huge summary (including, among the others, statistics, tests) | |
| of VMs and Perl 6 itself. | |
| Thank you very much in advance! | |
| sergot | |
| THE POLL | |
| Your knowledge | |
| 1. Which VMs for Perl 6 do you know? | |
| 2. What are their defects (e.g. too long execution) and | |
| how hard is it to fix them (how long would it take, how many people can do this etc.)? | |
| 3. What is the worst and the best thing about those VMs? | |
| Your choice | |
| 4. Which VM do you use most often? | |
| 5. Why do you use this VM? (please write all known advantages and disadvantages) | |
| 6. Do you know any bugs in this VM? | |
| 7. How do you think, which VM would have the greatest future? Which one would be "the chosen one"? | |
| Others | |
| 8. You can write some useful information about VMs, links etc. | |
| Do not hesitate to criticize this poll, suggest new questions, correct any mistakes and so on. | |
| Thank you! :) | |
| PS. | |
| If you want to contact me, you can find me on: | |
| #perl (irc.perl.org) | |
| #perl6 (irc.freenode.net) | |
| my nickname is "sergot". |
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JVM has a slow startup time, which is unbearable in development.
Parrot is basically inferior to MoarVM in every possible way these days, and I don't ever expect it to get better; Parrot development is almost nonexistent.
Parrot: module ecosystem support
JVM: speed, once JIT kicks in; very nice parallel capabilities
MoarVM: speed; amazing development progress
Worst things:
Parrot: almost a complete lack of non-blocking IO, lack of threading
JVM: glacially slow startup/compilation times
MoarVM: um, no idea. As I said, it's a wonderland full of ponies and rainbows