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		Mithaldu on Nov 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video] He does call it a "compiler" in the video. Maybe that's temporary while it's still unoptimized, or a change in direction?

eric_the_read on Nov 14, 2015 [–]

Perl5 historically has compiled to bytecode and then interpreted the bytecode. I imagine that's what's going on here.

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