Dear Larry Wall, Sorry for writing you directly, but I know you sometimes answer questions on this mailing list. And those answers are uniquely easy for a beginner to understand.
The compile times of Perl5 and Perl6 are dramatically different. Perl 5 is literally 100 times or more faster than Perl6. It is professionally embarrassing to turn over a program to customer that takes up to 20 seconds to start. I have reported the issue over on: https://github.com/perl-foundation-outreach/gsoc-2021-ideas/issues/4 From the bug report, I compared a program I ported from Perl 5 to Perl 6. $ raku -c --stagestats GetUpdates.pl6 Stage start : 0.000 Stage parse : 17.851 Stage syntaxcheck: Syntax OK $ time perl -c GetUpdates.pl GetUpdates.pl syntax OK real 0m0.305s user 0m0.243s sys 0m0.029s 17.851 versus 0.75 seconds. Or 238 times slower. Since you wrote both Perl 5 and Perl 6, is there some reason beyond my limited understanding of how these things work as to why your Perl 5 is so much faster to compile that your Perl 6? And is wishing for the situation to be corrected not a reasonable request? Also, am I stuck with the .precomp work around, which is not helpful when you have to run a lot of iterations to debug things such are regex's? 17 seconds to see if I goofed a regex is killing me! Many thanks, -T
