Have you tried running with --stagestats which gives you a break down of where the time is being spent?
On thing is if you are running large script files it came take a while. Moving your code into modules, which get precompiled can give a significant speed boost. On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, 23:45 Elizabeth Mattijsen, <l...@wenzperl.nl> wrote: > > On 1 Aug 2018, at 20:14, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > > Is it just me or does Perl 6 take about three times as long to > > start up as Perl 5? I do have a very fast machine and it takes > > about seven see for some of my Perl 6 stuff to get past the > > ruminating phase and start running. > > Seven seconds? Seven? That seems *very* long indeed. > > How long does it take to do: > > perl6 -e ‘’ > > ? That should be in the order of 130 msecs. If that’s the case, then > you’re probably doing a lot of grammar changes to Perl 6. But without the > actual code, this remains guessing. > > > > Any workaround for this, or is this just growing pains for Perl 6? > > Not sure :-) > > > > Liz -- Simon Proctor Cognoscite aliquid novum cotidie
