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Short for "Metamodel On A Runtime", MoarVM is a modern virtual machine built for the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler and the NQP Compiler Toolchain. Highlights include:

• Great Unicode support, with strings represented at grapheme level

• Dynamic analysis of running code to identify hot functions and loops, and perform a range of optimizations, including type specialization and inlining

• Support for threads, a range of concurrency control constructs, and asynchronous sockets, timers, processes, and more

• Generational, parallel, garbage collection

• Support for numerous language features, including first class functions, exceptions, continuations, runtime loading of code, big integers and interfacing with native libraries.