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This statement
my @stuff = "\x0"... "\xfff"
hangs the REPL for a while. In fact, memory as reported by top goes up to 1
GB and increases slowly but firmly. This happens whatever the start of the
range and for a few characters.
Ob versions:
This is Rakudo version 2016.09-68-g447d592 built on MoarVM version
2016.09-1-gdebb859