And prizes! Or not.
I do hate breaking in a new machine, but sometimes it can be fun, or at least bemusing. Right now I'm building a clean perl, on the Win32 box, on my OS X box. (Yay, remote desktop, though it's definitely not an optimized screen update...)
Looks like perl 5.8.1 builds with Visual Studio/.NET, at least as long as there are no spaces in the directory path. When this is done, I'm going to see if I can throw the /CLR switch on the compile and generate .NET code rather than native machine code. (Though not tonight, it's relatively late) I'm curious to see what the speed difference between a native and .NET build is. Miniperl may not be good for a whole lot, but it ought to be good for a nice set of benchmark tests. (Though I expect it won't be quite so straightforward as throwing a single switch on the build)
Who knows, maybe this'll change my mind about whether .NET would make an adequate target platform. This ought to be a reasonable benchmark--after all the speed differential between a native and .NET build of perl should be about the difference in speed between Perl 6 on Parrot and perl 6 on .NET.
Posted by Dan at October 3, 2003 10:43 PM | TrackBack (0)