Re: Perl 6 versus the CPAN

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote:
> An index with support for $n languages doesn't seem to
> gain much over $n similarly structured indexes.

If Parrot itself supports trans-language calls (which I'm led to
understand it can?) then a single index gives us the potentially huge
win of cross-language dependencies.

That is not to say, of course, that we don't want _fragmented_ indexes
as a separate performance feature. The current index is already pretty
large, even if you stripped out the waste and moved to a
LZMA-compressed SQLite database.

Some kind of support for fragmenting the indexes would probably be
useful (although not utterly essential).

Adam K