The previous post - pperl 0.6.12+ - Shall we play a game? - closed with a promise: the next release will compete in every benchmark of the Computer Language Benchmarks Game with the best scripted language entry there. The current build already takes several rows outright; the tally belongs to the release post. This one is about a row where the promise cannot be kept with the guns we have. On regex-redux the opponent is V8's Irregexp, a compiler that turns regular expressions into machine code, and no amount of work on the Perl JIT will close that gap, because the time is not spent in Perl ops at all. The answer is a second compiler: ReJIT.

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.