VelociPerl (https://velociperl.com/) is a closed-source fork of #perl that claims 45% performance gains over the stock #perl. Today I took it for a ride using a composite, but hopefully not contrived benchmark that combined random number generation, hash creation and blessing of references in classes.
Here is what I found
https://chrisarg.github.io/Killing-It-with-PERL/2024/09/21/Taking-VelociPerl-for-a-ride.html #performance