moarvm
VM for NQP And Rakudo Perl 6
Short for "Metamodel On A Runtime", MoarVM is a modern virtual machine built for the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler and the NQP Compiler Toolchain. Highlights include:
Great Unicode support, with strings represented at grapheme level
Dynamic analysis of running code to identify hot functions and loops, and perform a range of optimizations, including type specialization and inlining
Support for threads, a range of concurrency control constructs, and asynchronous sockets, timers, processes, and more
Generational, parallel, garbage collection
Support for numerous language features, including first class functions, exceptions, continuations, runtime loading of code, big integers and interfacing with native libraries.
- Versions: 2022.04
- Website: https://moarvm.org/
- Licenses: Artistic License 2.0
- Package source: gnu/packages/perl6.scm
- Builds: See build status
- Issues: See known issues
Installation
Install the latest version of moarvm as follows:
guix install moarvm
Or install a particular version:
guix install moarvm@2022.04
You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.
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