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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- 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 22:08:04 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Message-ID: <4e1mv4$hr3@solutions.solon.com>
- References: <4dhuoj$cbe@shellx.best.com> <ukvim4pceu.fsf@linda.teleport.com> <4e06en$a6v@solutions.solon.com> <4e0af7$glv@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
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- In article <4e0af7$glv@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
- Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
- > [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]
-
- >In comp.lang.perl.misc,
- > seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
- >:>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.
-
- I didn't write that. Much though I appreciate being credited with
- Merlyn's work, he said that, and I responded.
-
- >Well, fibonacci implemented recursively is slower than that.
- >Matrix multiply is slower than that. But most things are
- >faster than the stdly quoted 10x, mostly because I can figure
- >out ways to get it to spend all its time in C.
-
- Hmph.
-
- >:But is it faster than GNU grep? :)
-
- >No, but it's much faster than std fgrep.
-
- Uhm, not to be picky, but a distracted half-blind cat is significantl
- faster than standard fgrep.
-
- (Depends, though; whose fgrep is "standard"? Also, on what kind of
- match; I seem to recall that fgrep beat egrep on matching for any
- of 200+ fixed strings, in a historical implementation.)
-
- > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
- > choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
-
- I've been wondering who said that. Thx.
-
- -s
- [Courtesy cc: of this posting copied to /dev/null.]
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