raiph@hack:~$ time perl6 -e 'my $s; for 1..10000 {$s+=1/$_**2};say $s' 1.64483407184807 real 0m0.355s user 0m0.316s sys 0m0.036s raiph@hack:~$ time perl -E 'my $s; for (1..10000) {$s+=1/$_**2};say $s' 1.64483407184807 real 0m0.007s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.000s