Are you talking about perl 5 or perl 6?

jasonjayr 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

A few years ago; perl 6 renamed itself to 'raku', so the perl 5 folks can continue to improve/maintain the original 'perl'.

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topspin 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

5 has this. There are modules that get you to function signatures and type constraints. It's all opt-in and, as was said, you have to nudge LLMs to use it, but they can and the results are indeed better.

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tasty_freeze a day ago | parent [-]

What kind of performance impact does it have? Obviously it depends on the specific program, but let's say the worst case scenario, something like a recursive implementation of the factorial function.

	▲	topspin 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> What kind of performance impact does it have? Minor. Faster unpacking of @_, but it's not a huge win until you have a lot of arguments. The conventional Perl 5 interpreter has no JIT to leverage the benefits of stronger types, inline functions, unroll loops, etc. A factorial function has few arguments, so the unpack gain will be small to nothing.