Perl 6 and byte code

[Peter Hickman]

Presently Python compiles it's py files to pyc files that can then be 
run without access to the source (the py).

Would Perl 6 be able to do this? Compile the pl to plc and pm to pmc and 
load the ??c version if it was available and newer than the source?

Other than code hiding would there be any performance benefits?