TFW rewriting the clipboard manager from #Raku to #Perl saved 20 times of memory :blobfoxnotlikethis: The service does literally nothing most of the time waiting for an event and keeps all states in the file system and Rakudo still manages to eat up a whooping 168 MB of RAM :floofWoozy: I really like the language but its reference (and now also only) implementation’s performance (or lack thereof) really stops me from keep using it.
BTW, fun fact: if you chop a string in Raku and Perl then concatenate their results together you get the original one :ym_rofl:
@rakulang Thanks, I'll tweak the tag for future posts. I tend not to use the sexier language features in favour of a portable polyglot approach (also because I find them hard to parse when I come back to the code later).
The baseline solution in Java clocks in just under 5 seconds, so with Raku what should be a decent timing for a closest translation of that. The optimized solutions are less than 2 seconds.
I really like #rakulang, in theory, and would like to use it more, but whenever I have something to write, I still often end up with using #perl for it.
Just the latest example: I had to write a simple text-wrangling script that needed UUID generation. With Perl, I used App::Fatpacker to embed UUID::Tiny to make the script runnable just about anywhere without any extra dependencies, but there is nothing like that for Raku AFAIK and it just didn't seem worth it to do something more complicated.
@VZ “#RakuLang’s design all came from the question, ‘What could I build if I could basically start again from scratch? What ideas might I have? How do I build a coherent whole from this blank canvas?’
“#Perl’s ongoing design is all rooted in, ‘What would I use right now in this real code I am writing today? What features would I like to have that I currently do not?’”
J'ai réalisé un #hippopotame en terre cuite et puis je l'ai cui en #céramique et puis j'ai mis des émaux dessus et puis je l'ai cui en cuisson #raku. Le résultat est un mignon petit hippo qui est dans l'eau et dont seule la partie supérieure émerge, tête, dos, petite queue.
