Unfortunately, the performance of regexes has not been improved much in the past years, that is true and on the radar. Yes, it can be improved (very much indee

Unfortunately, the performance of regexes has not been improved much in the past years, that is true and on the radar. Yes, it can be improved (very much indeed). Most other subsystems of Rakudo Perl 6 have been improved significantly, some by orders of magnitude. And then there's work on the basic runtime of MoarVM and its JIT that will benefit all programs running on MoarVM. The Perl Foundation recently approved another grant for the JIT: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/11/september-2018-grant-votes.html http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/11/september-2018-grant-... about http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/10/grant-proposal-moarvm-jit-comp.html http://news.perlfoundation.org/2018/10/grant-proposal-moarvm...