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- From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 05:49:28 -0800
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- In-reply-to: tim@franck's message of 21 Jan 1996 22:14:39 GMT
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- >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Hollebeek <tim@franck> writes:
-
- Tim> An important point, though, is that all 'reasonably' written C programs
- Tim> will run within a factor of 2 or so of 'about as fast as you can get,
- Tim> while for some problems, Perl won't be able to break through about a
- Tim> factor of 7 or so, even if you are a Perl expert.
-
- I just want to point out to everyone that you are simply making that
- figure up based on what you think Perl is doing internally.
-
- Tom Christiansen has had a long-standing bet that someone can't give
- him a program in C that he can't make run no more than "e" times
- slower (about 2.8 for you non-math-geeks) in Perl. So far, no one's
- done it.
-
- That's also been my experience as well. Perl is *not* slow. In fact,
- a Perl-written egrep is *faster* than most vendor's egrep, for
- example.
-
- So, if you have a number of "7-times-slower" programs, post'em, and I
- bet we can easily boost their speed by two or three times.
-
- ObDisclaimer: Yes, I know a few things about Perl. :-)
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