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I just encountered this post (thanks hippo) and thought an update would be helpful.

The OP suggests that running this "benchmark" with the initial Rakudo Star release from 2010 was about 4000x slower than Perl 5.

Now, 5 years later, a current Rakudo looks like it's something like 50x slower than a current Perl 5 for this particular "benchmark". (The bogus behaviors -- NaNs and quadratic slow down -- have of course been fixed.) 

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

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In reply to Re: Perl 6 and performance by raiph
in thread Perl 6 and performance by kikuchiyo

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