Perl 5.24 comes with performance enhancements

[nanis]

https://www.nu42.com/2016/05/switch-to-perl-5-24.html

[tmaly]

I would like to hear more on the other benchmarks. I use Perl everyday, and any improvement in performance would be a huge help to me.

[nanis → tmaly]

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/measurements.ph... lists them all. The main improvement in 5.24 comes from restoring arithmetic speed. See https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/perl/pod/perldelta.pod...