Baseline test of Str.Numeric() in nom

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# Nowhere to go but up ... :-)

# Δt is the time actually spent in the tight .Numeric loop;
# most of the remainder is spent generating the test strings.
# The first three rows of output indicate successful parses;
# the Failure() row indicates cases that don't parse correctly. 

$ time ./perl6 ./test-numeric 
"Int()" => 7438
"Num()" => 70389
"Rat()" => 1839
"Failure()" => 196388
"TOTAL" => 276054
Δt = 214.54207110405

real	9m5.603s
user	9m3.126s
sys	0m1.460s