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- From: chase@centerline.com (David Chase)
- 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: 23 Jan 1996 18:40:30 GMT
- Organization: CenterLine Software
- Distribution: world
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- > Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com) wrote:
- > : 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.
-
- Is this really true? What's the bet? Is a particular piece of hardware
- specified? On modern RISC machines, carefully crafted C can multiply
- large matrices at >50% of peak Mflops. To compete in Perl, I think
- you'd have to run the "contest" on a particularly crufty piece of
- hardware.
-
- speaking for myself,
-
- David Chase
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