Even simpler test-case: for ^10000 { start say $_ }
For me, this almost always hangs (after printing a few dozen or few hundred lines), with the MoarVM version currently used by Rakudo nom: MoarVM version 2017.08.1-128-gde6dced But *no longer* hangs with MoarVM master (which has the fix by ugexe++): MoarVM version 2017.08.1-148-g1059eed1 \o/ Marking this ticket as TESTNEEDED.