The conserved blog posts of Jonathan Worthington:

• ‘grinding out performance improvements
• ‘eval’ can see lexicals and other fixes
• :st(1) Post
• ;; works, making illegal things illegal
• A Bunch of Rakudo News
• A First Cut On proto
• A Little Reflection
• A MoarVM Progress Update
• A Perl 6 Debugger
• A Rakudo Debugger
• A Rakudo on MoarVM update
• A day of Rakudo bug-fixing
• A few quick updates
• A few words on Perl 6 versioning and compatibility
• A hint of meta-programming
• A look at the preparations behind the JVM port, and a progress update
• A nice supplies: syntactic relief for working with asynchronous data
• A productive weekend in Rakudo land
• A quick JVM backend update
• A quick Rakudo update
• A roadmap for 6model and nqp-rx changes
• A unified and improved Supply concurrency model
• A whole heap of work
• An optimizer lands, bringing native operators
• Anonymous classes and meta-class stuff
• Another great YAPC::Europe
• Another little nom update
• Assorted fixes
• Asynchronous Programming: Promises and Channels
• Attribute sub-protocol and other role bits
• Attributes, Attributes, Attributes!
• Back and hackin’
• Back from vacation, hackathon coming up!
• Back from vacation
• Backpacking done, now back to Rakudo
• Better Diagnostics On Ambiguous Dispatch
• Better errors, benchmarks and some debugging
• Better usage information in the MoarVM specializer
• Bounded serialization, better regexes and better errors
• Bringing back the setting, and bug hunting
• Can’t forget about memory issues
• Catching up: two Rakudo Days from December
• Class attributes and many fixes
• Classes, attributes, methods and more
• Complex cocktail causes cunning crash
• Concurrency bug squishing: part 1
• Considering hyper-race semantics
• Deferral
• Delegation With ‘handles’
• Digging into the performance-reliability work
• Don’t quote me on it…
• Dynamic lookups and context introspection with inlining
• Eliminating unrequired guards
• Enums and the "but" operator
• Enums improved, plus other little enhancements
• Faster box-unbox and Int operations
• Faster dispatches with MoarVM specializer plugins
• Final Report on DeepText Multi-Dispatch Grant
• Fixes and the start of import
• Fixes for Rakudo, and Parrot too
• Fixes…and feeds
• Fixing bugs, and looking at where we’re at
• Framing the problem
• Funding, Bulgarian Perl Workshop and Rakudo News
• Getting closer to Christmas
• Gradual typing, merged MOPs and bounded serialization
• Grammar::Tracer and Grammar::Debugger
• Grammars Get Class-Like, And Other Bits
• Grant status update
• HTTP and Web Sockets with Cro
• Hackathoning in Oslo
• Happy heapster!
• Heap heap hooray!
• Hyper-cross-reduction operators, IO tweaks and more
• Hypers on hashes and other improvements
• I’ll be speaking at “We Actually Build Stuff”
• Implementing Perl 6 OO
• January Rakudo Compiler Release: MoarVM support and much more
• July: Beijing Perl Workshop, vacation and hacking
• LTM for alternations
• Last Post
• Last week: Unicode case fixes and much more
• Last week: smaller hashes, faster startup, and many fixes
• Laying the role meta-foundations
• Lexical Fixes
• Lexical Subs In Rakudo
• Looking back, looking forward
• Looking for Perl 6, Rakudo, and MoarVM development funding
• Lots of Rakudo fixes-enhancements
• Lots of improvements coming in the Rakudo November release
• Lots of little improvements
• Many more Rakudo fixes
• Massively reducing MoarVM Fixed Size Allocator contention
• Material from the Rakudo and NQP Internals course
• Meta-ops for user defined ops, and various Rakudo fixes
• Meta-programming slides, and some Rakudo news
• Meta-programming: what, why and how
• Mixins, generic routines and enums
• MoarVM Specializer Improvements Part 1: Gathering Data
• MoarVM Specializer Improvements Part 2: Planning
• MoarVM Specializer Improvements Part 3: Optimizing Code
• MoarVM Specializer Improvements Part 4: Argument Guards
• More Rakudo OO Hacking
• More Rakudo ng hacking
• More precise deoptimization usage tracking
• Multi-dispatch lands in 6model on .Net
• Multi-dispatch progress
• Multiple Dispatch Design Work
• Multiple Dispatch: More features and speed
• My Perl 6 Hacking
• My Perl 6 wishes for 2019
• My YAPC::EU talks
• My life refactored, Zavolaj, workshops, Rakudo and more!
• My write-up of YAPC::Europe
• NPW
• NQP and 6model: big steps forward on Parrot and JVM
• NQP changes getting there; Rakudo next!
• NQP gets MoarVM support, cursor reduction, and other news
• NQP on JVM bootstrapped, soon will land in NQP master
• NQP on JVM gets Grammars, Multiple Dispatch
• Not guts, but 6: part 1
• Not guts, but 6: part 2
• Not guts, but 6: part 3
• Not guts, but 6: part 4
• Not guts, but 6: part 5
• Of sisters, stacks, and CPAN
• One month, three conferences!
• Optimization, concurrency, and Moar
• Optimizing reading lines from a file
• Parallel Dispatch
• Parametric Roles
• Parrot 0.5.1 "Hatachi" Released!
• Perl 6 FAQ
• Perl 6 Hacking At GPW
• Perl 6 Supplies Reactive Programming
• Perl 6 importing, and soon sockets
• Perl 6 is biased towards mutators being really simple. That’s a good thing.
• Perl 6 talk in Malmö
• Perl Mova + YAPC::Russia
• Phasers set to stun
• Planning for my Hague Grant
• Playing with traits
• Privacy and OOP
• Progress and minor frustration
• Racing to writeness to wrongness leads
• Raku multiple dispatch with the new MoarVM dispatcher
• Rakudo Built-ins Can Now Be Written In Perl 6
• Rakudo Day: Fixes and features
• Rakudo Day: Many bug fixes
• Rakudo Day: Starting to put Rakudo together again
• Rakudo Day: constants, and other bits
• Rakudo Debugger Updates
• Rakudo Gets Type Annotations And Checking
• Rakudo Hacking and Talks
• Rakudo Hacking: More OO, Captures and Ranges
• Rakudo Hacking: Pairs and Refinement Types
• Rakudo JVM News: More tests, plus Thread and Promise prototypes
• Rakudo MMD now using Perl 6 algorithm
• Rakudo Perl 6 on the JVM
• Rakudo QAST switch brings memory reductions
• Rakudo Star 2012.02 out – and the focus for 2012.03
• Rakudo Star, and where from here
• Rakudo container refactor and fixes
• Rakudo gets a new thread pool
• Rakudo gets some IO
• Rakudo gets state variables
• Rakudo on 6model gets underway!
• Rakudo on JVM Progress Update
• Rakudo pre-release bug hunting
• Rakudo switched over to QRegex
• Rakudo’s meta-model: The Road Ahead
• Rakudo: Assorted improvements
• Rakudo: More bugs squished, over 7000 passing spectests
• [Rakudo: Type registry and ‘use’ changes](Rakudo: Type registry and ‘use’ changes.html)
• Rakudo: this week’s release, and the next Rakudo Star
• Ramblings on Rakudo startup
• Ranges, Parameters And Many Fixes
• Recollections from the Raku Core Summit
• Redesigning Rakudo’s Scalar
• Refactoring and torture
• Reflecting, celebrating, and looking forward
• Relaying the metamodel foundations
• Remote Debug Support for MoarVM
• Roles
• Separate compilation, package refactors and gradual typing: oh boy, what a mix!
• Shrinking MoarVM call frames
• Signature Objects
• Signature introspection
• Since the Hackathon…
• Slides From My Talks
• Slides from my Optimizing Rakudo Perl 6 talk
• Slides, and a few words on representation polymorphism
• Small, but welcome, fixes
• Smudging the compile-time-run-time boundary
• So, what does MoarVM do with your Perl 6 code?
• Sorting out synchronous I-O
• Starting on Perl 5 interop for Rakudo
• Starting to get over the hump
• Stuff I’ve been doing
• Switching to QRegex for parsing Perl 6 source
• Taking a break from Raku core development
• Taking a couple of steps backwards to fix a GC bug
• Taking a short break
• Testing Cro HTTP APIs
• Testing in virtual time
• That week: concurrency fixes, control exceptions, and more
• The Easter Hackathon
• The Great Method Dispatch Refactor
• The Moving to Moose Hackathon, and NQP on QAST
• The Rakudo “nom” hacking marathon
• The Rakudo move to QAST: progressing nicely
• The first day back on Rakudo
• The first release from ng is coming!
• The importance of a break
• The new MoarVM dispatch mechanism is here!
• The new Rakudo signature binder has landed
• The view from the inside: using meta-programming to implement Rakudo
• This is not enough!
• This month’s Rakudo Star release – and what’s coming next
• This week: Unicode 8, loads of fixes, preparing for shaped arrays
• This week: Unicode normalization, many RTs
• This week: concurrency stuff, multi-dimensional stuff, stuff stuff…
• This week: digging into NFG, fixing “use fatal”, and more
• This week: digging into multi-dimensional arrays – and plenty more
• This week: fixing lots of RTs, digging into the GLR
• This week: fixing lots of things
• This week: less than hoped, but still good stuff
• This week: the big NFG switch on, and many fixes
• This week: too little sleep and too little Perl 6
• Those weeks: much progress!
• Today’s Rakudo Progress: Object Initialization And Grammars
• Towards a new general dispatch mechanism in MoarVM
• Unpacking data structures with signatures
• Updates
• Various Rakudo Updates
• Well that was hard work: getting nqp-rx grammars using 6model
• What I’ve been working on, and what’s coming up
• What one Christmas elf has been up to
• What’s coming up in September-October
• Wrestling with dispatch
• YAPC::Asia 2012
• YAPC::EU 2013 Slides
• YAPC::Russia
• wrap and unwrap

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