Especially because once we've sorted out what he is trying to demonstrate (I think) it seems dead trivial to duplicate? I mean, the only thing stopping me from

Especially because once we've sorted out what he is trying to demonstrate (I think) it seems dead trivial to duplicate? I mean, the only thing stopping me from doing that same demo with blazing speed in the deadly slow Rakudo Perl 6 compiler is the speed of calculating 2^100000.... PS For what it's worth, I'm guessing he's doing something more interesting than the dead simple implementation I'm imagining...