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I'd expect the fancy Unicode versions of <=, >=, and != to perform equally well, instead the ≥ and ≤ are 36x slower than their Texas companions and ≠ is 15x slower. Here's the timings for >= vs ≥: m: my $x = rand; for ^1000_000 { $ = $x >= 1_000_000_000_000 }; say now - INIT now; rakudo-moar 43c176: OUTPUT: «0.74663187» m: my $x = rand; for ^1000_000 { $ = $x ≥ 1_000_000_000_000 }; say now - INIT now; rakudo-moar 43c176: OUTPUT: «(timeout)» m: my $x = rand; for ^1000_0 { $ = $x ≥ 1_000_000_000_000 }; say now - INIT now; rakudo-moar 43c176: OUTPUT: «0.2661272» m: say 0.2661272*100 / 0.729002 rakudo-moar 43c176: OUTPUT: «36.505689»