[wott]

Yes, I haven't tried lately, but for my own small text manipulation program, Perl 6 was still more than 100 times slower than Perl 5 the last time I tried. Probably because of some JIT delaying the startup time. But since my use is calling small programs, it was a no go for me; and after one year it had not improved a bit.

[visarga]

Many string and dictionary based operations seem to work faster in Perl5 than Python for me.

[Steeeve]

Perl5 string and hash performance was always top notch.

[wott]

The Perl 5 version was indeed also 3 to 4 times faster than the Python one.

[issaria]

Did you compare to python2 or python3, cause python3 is in the same league as perl6.