On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 11:00:38AM +0200, Thor Michael Støre wrote: > Thormicks-MacBook-Pro-3:~ thormick$ time perl6 -e "say 'foo'" > foo > > real 0m0.205s > user 0m0.150s > sys 0m0.045s > > [...] > > Foo indeed! ~200ms for this seems awfully slow to me.
On another hand, my machine shows: $ time perl -MMoose -E "say 'foo'" foo real 0m0.190s user 0m0.172s sys 0m0.012s It feels like Perl 6 might at least be in the same ballpark as Perl 5 for similar capabilities. Startup time is definitely something to be aware of, but most people have needs beyond outputting a line of text to STDOUT. Pm
