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OK, mystery solved. Seems the Comma IDE left a zombie rakudo process running after I shut it down which was eating 100% CPU. So on the newer mac I now I get: 0.34s user 0.17s system 82% cpu 0.615 total

Which is much more inline with expectations.

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