>From your description of running the test with nmake I find it reasonable to
>assume you are testing on windows. Winsock seems to have a 1 second delay for
>“connection refused” errors which is triggered (2000 times) by a test added
>with PR 227: https://github.com/perl6/roast/pull/227. I saw some
>documentation of the delay on msdn
>(https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/9b90b65c-4630-46b1-98f1-5d4d22427962/delayed-connection-refused-error?forum=netfxnetcom
> ) and is demonstrated by a small Perl 5 script below. The problem also
>effects roast on WSL (windows subsystem for linux).
# test below runs in about 10 seconds on windows/WSL
# and instantly on linux
use Socket; # This defines PF_INET and SOCK_STREAM
for (1..10) {
socket my $socket,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,(getprotobyname('tcp'))[2];
connect $socket, sockaddr_in(1, inet_aton('127.0.0.1'))
or $! =~ /\bconnection\b.*\brefused\b/i
or die "can't connect: $!\n";
close($socket);
}