start up time was abysmal
Does it really meaningfully impact one's productivity when it's 340ms (cold)/150ms (warm) instead of 30ms (cold)/10ms (warm)?
(About the same as three years ago.) Mind you, the comparison becomes more fair once you also load Moose, Perl6::Junctions and many more that you get for free.
› time echo -n | perl6
real 0m0,339s
user 0m0,222s
sys 0m0,058s
› time echo -n | perl6
real 0m0,124s
user 0m0,151s
sys 0m0,027s
› time echo -n | perl6
real 0m0,122s
user 0m0,142s
sys 0m0,034s
› time echo -n | perl6
real 0m0,123s
user 0m0,140s
sys 0m0,038s
› time echo -n | perl6
real 0m0,124s
user 0m0,147s
sys 0m0,031s
› time echo -n | perl6
real 0m0,123s
user 0m0,140s
sys 0m0,035s