Still reasonably confident that Idris 2 is going to be quite a bit faster than Idris 1...pic.twitter.com/XDb4NVUTv3
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Interesting! Parsing is a bear, and runtimes are hard. Good luck! 
One thought: redundant and/or blocking I/O in the parser? Still, 3s is a long time.
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