https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/90ed2e2fb2

significantly speed up spectest run

initial measurements show a 37% improvement.
OK, I cheated. bacek++ did all the real work, I merely bumped PARROT_REVISION

Я таки допилил Generational GC в Parrot'е :)

Описание алгоритма живёт тут. Никакого тюнинга ещё не делалось. 37% ускорения это только ( Read more... )

Beginner's events are way too easy. Let's take a look at "advanced".

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/games/games08/aevent1.mspx

In a nutshell we build mapping between number and word.

use Test ( Read more... )

Beginner Event 2: True Type

sub calculate_truetype(@fonts) {
my @truetypes = grep { $^a ~~ /\(TrueType\) $/ }, @fonts;
say join("\n", @truetypes);
say "";
say "TrueType: " ~ +@truetypes;
say "Total: " ~ +@fonts;
};

/me vomited looking on proposed solution by MS guys...

In response to http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/38134

Solution for 2008 Beginner Event 1: Pairing Off

use Test;
plan 4;

sub fact($n) {
$n <= 1 ?? 1 !! $n*fact($n-1 ( Read more... )