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- From: yogi@shellx.best.com (Yogi)
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- Subject: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 20:42:59 -0800
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- I don't want to start a religeous war, and YES, I did read the FAQ's,
- and did not find any info on relative speed of comparing C vs Perl vs Tcl
- vs Java in a very general sort of fashion. (I know specific features of each
- will vary...)
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- I'm very interested in the uses of Tcl and Perl, with regard to Tk and
- other GUI toolkits (what other's are there?)
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- Can't seem to find any info on statements I have read that seem to conflict:
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- Somewhere I have read that Perl coded grep runs as fast or faster than C
- coded grep in Unix. (Larry Wall wrote this, correct me if I'm wrong.)
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- And in a CGI-web book I read that Perl is an interpreted language that runs
- 10 times slower than C. But Perl is compiled, right? So how is that different
- than say, the Tcl interpreter? Is this just semantics? I would say that
- Perl is a run-time compiled language if I had to guess...
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- So what's the real answer, or are both statements true somehow? I know that
- Perl can run faster or slower depending on how you code it, (C too) and
- so I guess you would have to find the fastest C code for a particular function
- and similar fastest Perl code (or Tcl) and compare THOSE programs to get
- a definative answer.
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- And then, what about the speed of Java in comparison to the other 3?
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- Perl/Tcl/Java Newbie-
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