That is exactly what the main architect of the compiler has been working on for the past couple of years.

Performance has been enhanced by a few factors since it was released in 2015.

For a lots of things the next stable release (as soon as the latest round of optimization have been merged) will be on par with perl5 / ruby / python ...

The main slow thing remaining is Grammars which if I understand correctly are not available in those other languages to compare speed, but that is next on the road map for optimization.

Here is a recent talk about the state of perl6 performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNeu0wK92NE