Bug#750837: ITP: moarvm -- virtual machine for Rakudo Perl 6 and NQP

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:23:09 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> On Thursday 12 March 2015 16:57:39 gregor herrmann wrote:
> > Any news on moarvm packaging?
> Hmm no. The original plan was to Daniel to do the packaging work and me to 
> sponsor. I hope this plan still stands.

Ok.
 
> > As I understand it's the preferred VM for Rakudo now, or something
> > similar  and will be needed for the announced Perl6 released later
> > this year.
> Agreed. We will have to decide which backend do we want to provide: only 
> moarvm or more ? 
> Given the lack of manpower, I think that providing only more than one backend 
> is not realistic.

I know far too little about the whole Perl6 ecosystem to be able to
help here; my impression is just that we will need moarvm; and I
understand the point that maintaining other VMs might be too much
work to be worthwhile.


Cheers,
gregor

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