Wow. [LWN.net]

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Wow.

Posted Jul 29, 2010 19:27 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
Parent article: The first Rakudo Star release

Here are some interesting statistics. Running ./perl6 and then doing nothing creates a process with a VSIZE of 93MB. Doing the same with perl5 creates a process with a VSIZE of 3.4MB.

Second wow:

$ time ./perl6 < /dev/null
 
real    0m2.509s
user    0m2.000s
sys     0m0.212s

$ time perl < /dev/null

real    0m0.004s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.004s

What is perl6 doing on startup that uses 2 seconds of user CPU time?