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Why is an empty r-m program so much slower than -v ?
# This is with warm caches, with perl6-m residing on NFS;
# why is -e '' so much slower than -v ?
$ time perl6 -e ''
real 0m0.325s
user 0m0.264s
sys 0m0.042s
$ time perl6 -v
This is perl6 version 2014.07-147-g40748bc built on MoarVM version 2014.07-116-g9a4fda8
real 0m0.057s
user 0m0.030s
sys 0m0.013s
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