$ time ./perl6 -e 'my $s; for 1..10000 {$s+=1/$_**2};say $s' 1.64483407184806 real 0m38.387s user 0m38.154s sys 0m0.232s $ time perl -E 'my $s; for (1..10000) {$s+=1/$_**2};say $s' 1.64483407184806 real 0m0.009s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.004s