MoarVM: A virtual machine for NQP and Rakudo

[masak]

I just wrote a post about MoarVM, too: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/a-vm-for-6model . Slightly more slanted towards how this fits into the evolution of Perl 6 implementations.

[jedharris]

Regarding "What achievement can Perl 6 claim?"

At least one is 6Model itself -- a generic object semantics and API which has been back ported to Perl 5, has been ported to the JVM (with a lot of optimization still pending) and as we see here is a reasonable design for part of a VM API.

As far as I know 6Model is the only candidate around for a low level object model that is flexible enough to implement the object semantics in most languages, low level enough to be be efficiently implemented in most VMs, etc.

[jedharris]

If anyone is curious look at https://github.com/jnthn/6model/blob/master/overview.pod

There may be more comprehensive / current documentation out there but I don't know where.

[chromatic]

a generic object semantics and API which has been back ported to Perl 5

Do you mean Moose or the abandoned Perl 5 MOP experiment?

[disinterest]

Wow, they are really good at starting things.

[patrickas]

Right... start things... keep evolving them and getting better... and hopefully never end.

I think that's the plan.