This Week on Perl 6 (16 - 22 December 2001)

Dec 29, 2001 by Bryan Warnock

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The Perl Development Grant Fund

The Perl Foundation is raising money to sponsor Damian “Mr. Language” Conway and Dan “Mr. Internals” Sugalski. We’re about a quarter of the way there, so if you don’t know what to do with the $25 you received from Aunt Bertha for Christmas, now you do.

A JIT Compiler for Parrot

Daniel Grunblatt has an early JIT compiler in CVS now. Although it currently works only under Linux x86, it’s certainly an impressive demonstration.

Perl I/O

Melvin Smith asked whether Nick Ing-Simmons Perl I/O layer was going to be used for Parrot. Given Dan’s desire to support asynchronous I/O, there were several conflicting opinions. The final result, however, was that Melvin was going to start from scratch, using Nick’s Perl I/O code as a basis.