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   Announce: Niecza Perl 6

I am happy to make the first general announcement of Niecza Perl 6[1], a Perl 6
compiler project focusing on optimization research.

I have been tinkering with this for about 6 months now and I feel I finally
have something worth sharing.

While other Perl 6 compilers have focused on exploration of semantic issues,
Niecza is exploring implementation efficiency issues.  The goal of this project
is to have fun while learning about how to make a fast Perl 6; if we
accidentally make a fast Perl 6 in the process, so much the better.

Rather than bore you with a long list of features that are not yet implemented,
here are some of the things that are not not yet implemented:

* Basic data types (Num, Str, Array, Hash, Sub, etc) and basic operations

* Control flow operators

* Regular expressions, including full LTM and cut operator support

* Lazy lists under the 'mostly eager' paradigm, supporting gather/take

* Separately compiled modules with distinct GLOBALs

* Classes, including C3 MRO computed at compile time, and nextsame

And a very small set of extensions:

* Low-level coding facilities (mostly for bootstrapping, but also for speed)

* Built-in support for JSYNC to save data structures

* Low-level access to threading facilities

If any of this sounds like fun to you, contact me via the Reply-To address or
on #perl6.

No release schedule has been decided at this time.

[1] https://github.com/sorear/niecza