So I've written some Bio stuff for Perl 6 and unfortunately Rakudo is still way too slow for super heavy computational lifting. On average stuff is 10x slower t

So I've written some Bio stuff for Perl 6 and unfortunately Rakudo is still way too slow for super heavy computational lifting. On average stuff is 10x slower than Perl 5 and worse case 100x. I strongly believe this will improve next year to the point it's competitive though. Shaped native arrays just came on the scene which means a list in Perl 6 can act in memory exactly like a C array which opens up the ability for the JIT to use SSE instructions. That said I've been using Perl 6 at work for basic file manipulation just because its so nice and quick. Anything that's 100sMB rather than 100sGB finishes up in acceptable times and sometimes Grammar support is super helpful.