Bloat
This is the recently announced “first usable” distribution of perl6 aka rakudo star. Just out of curiosity I compiled it for x86_64-linux using gcc 4.5.
Interesting results:
% size /usr/bin/perl5.12.1
text data bss dec hex filename
2778082 13076 584 2791742 2a993e /usr/bin/perl5.12.1
% size ~/src2/rakudo-star-2010.07/install/bin/perl6
text data bss dec hex filename
27972225 792 16 27973033 1aad5a9 rakudo-star-2010.07/install/bin/perl6
The text segment of perl6 is more than 10 times as big as that of perl 5.
Is it also 10 times as good?
That is progress I guess.