There is no release attached to this post - the second half will explain why. It is a post about measurement, twice over. Earlier posts claimed that pperl is under high-velocity development, and a claim like that should be quantified - so we do, with the same statistics perl's own release notes use, epigraph included. And we have started playing the Computer Language Benchmarks Game: one program is finished, the result is a 36x speedup on the game's terms, and the conclusions have reset our speed goals.