I would say so, yes. For instance, basic object creation in Perl 6 is now faster than basic object creation in Perl 5. Both can be improved with some tricks t

I would say so, yes. For instance, basic object creation in Perl 6 is now faster than basic object creation in Perl 5. Both can be improved with some tricks that experienced developers know, such as not using accessors in Perl 5, but directly lookup keys in the underlying hash. Similarly in Perl 6 some tricks can be performed. And then still Perl 6 is faster. Introducing Moo or Moose on the Perl 6 side, will only make Perl 5 slower. Making things faster in Perl 6 has been the main focus of development in the past 3 years. See also our most recent teaser for the 6.d release: https://i.redd.it/et514ut106u11.jpg https://i.redd.it/et514ut106u11.jpg which shows that the use of set operators has become almost 50x faster in that period.