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I actually did make a quick search to see if I was blowing hot air, and found this blog post that shows a bunch of benchmarks over time with a fairly typical Raku/Perl flavored text processing task, and it was taking 0.23s for the July 2022 release vs. 0.59s in Jan 2016 [1].

So that's a pretty impressive improvement--3x over 6 years--but I remember Raku being numbers like 4x or 5x slower than Python on benchmarks from the last few years, so by my very sloppy math it's still got to speed up by at least 2x or 3x to go to match Python.

It's also possible that there has been a ton of speedup in the last year-and-a-half since that benchmark, or it's not representative, but that's where I got the idea from.

[1] https://blogs.perl.org/users/sylvain_colinet/2023/01/benchma...