As a rule of thumb, that's probably still accurate. But there are specific areas where Rakudo on MoarVM already outperforms the Perl5 interpreter (eg an object

As a rule of thumb, that's probably still accurate. But there are specific areas where Rakudo on MoarVM already outperforms the Perl5 interpreter (eg an object creation benchmark was mentioned elsewhere). I suspect the scale will eventually tilt in Perl6's favour, but is has been slow going...