Yeah, I filed the slowness as a bug (127972) a while ago. On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Zoffix Znet via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> Oh, my bad. I didn't wait long enough. Takes over a minute: > > zoffix@VirtualBox:~$ time perl6 -e 'my str $a = "a" x 2**30;say $a.chars' > ===SORRY!=== > String too long for string constants segment > > real 1m15.794s > user 0m7.408s > sys 0m9.432s > zoffix@VirtualBox:~$ > >
