Benchmarks are irrevelant. No, seriously - they are.

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                 perl6-2012.08 perl6-2010.07        niecza
         anagram     16.844806     98.083399      5.827595
            dice     23.869605    175.062788 ######.######
      do_nothing      1.125223      0.805196      0.968604
           hello      0.621117      0.715590      1.179176
       iteration      0.856741      1.268466      1.229751
   iteration-for      0.740168      9.531140      2.091282
  mandelbrot-num      4.857133     92.657509      2.232028
  mandelbrot-rat      3.197625     82.286082      1.987490
    non-str-comb      0.628682     89.944591      1.376188
pascals_triangle      0.897459      0.926039      1.414202
      pick-words     15.260572    282.508229      2.603829
           prime     17.509708     59.364747 ######.######
         prime-2      4.025317     90.997897      1.593808
         prime-3      1.449293      9.773891      1.430596
       recursion      0.949892      2.425051      1.359849
   trans-sprintf      1.177493      2.944567 ######.######