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Mention the scale of the test suite.
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coke committed Dec 25, 2015
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language are now frozen, and we hope it will be quite some time before we
feel obligated to define a 6.d (Diwali) version of the language.

This Rakudo release targets those tests, and passes them all on at least
some architectures when the moon is in the right phase. But Rakudo itself
is not frozen. There is still plenty of work ahead for us to improve speed,
portability, and stability. Do not expect the level of perfection that you
see in established products. This is essentially a .0 release of a compiler.
We do not claim an absence of bugs or instabilities. We do not claim the
documentation is complete. We do not claim portability to many architectures.
We do not claim that all downstream software will work correctly. Think of
it as a first kernel release, and now we get to build and port various
distributions based around that kernel.
This Rakudo release targets those tests (over 120 thousand of them), and passes
them all on at least some architectures when the moon is in the right phase.
But Rakudo itself is not frozen. There is still plenty of work ahead for us to
improve speed, portability, and stability. Do not expect the level of
perfection that you see in established products. This is essentially a .0
release of a compiler. We do not claim an absence of bugs or instabilities.
We do not claim the documentation is complete. We do not claim portability to
many architectures. We do not claim that all downstream software will work
correctly. Think of it as a first kernel release, and now we get to build and
port various distributions based around that kernel.

What we do claim is that you now have a stable language specification, and
you can enjoy getting some stuff done with Perl 6 without us breaking it every
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