It has some native typed features that mean one can speed up numeric or raw byte&#x2F;bit operations to be faster, sometimes a lot faster than, say, Perl 5, but it&#x27;s generally a whole lot slower, 10x and even 100x slower wasn&#x27;t uncommon a few months ago. Some users claim it&#x27;s worth trying it to see how it works out for the sort of code a given user writes.<p>This release is about nailing down the language with a compiler that passes a test suite. Next comes a focus on improving what they have -- nailing bugs, speeding it up and expanding the test suite while making sure it continues to pass the test suite and keeps users&#x27; code running.<p>I&#x27;d expect some benchmarks to be published on #perl6 in the next few weeks.