Session
A First Look at the Insides of Perl 6
Dan Sugalski, The Perl Foundation
Track: Perl Conference 5
Date: Thursday, July 26
Time: 3:45pm
- 4:30pm
Location: Grande Ballroom A
This talk presents an overview of the internals of Perl 6. We'll start with a broad overview of the internals, and focus in from there, covering such topics as:
- The Perl 6 parser
- Threads in Perl 6
- Garbage Collection
- Bytecode compilation and optimization
- Variables, variable representations, and vtables
- The extension interface
Other topics may be covered as time permits.
