How does Parrot compare to other virtual machines?

Question

Parrot is the virtual machine originally designed for Perl 6.

What technical capabilities does the Parrot VM offer that competing virtual machines such as the Java Virtu

Answer 1

This question is outdated. Rakudo Perl 6 no longer targets Parrot as a backend; MoarVM is the preferred backend, with the JVM backend a work in progress (generally works, but many Perl 6 features not implemented or currently broken). Development work (not ready for users) is being done to add Javascript as a third backend.