25 Oct
2006
25 Oct
'06
1:54 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Jim Leonard once stated:
Jay West wrote:
A few years ago (and I'd point to the entry on my blog but the server it's
on is currently down for reasons beyond my control) I wrote a program to
process a logfile in C (on a machine that was either 33MHz or 66Mhz) knowing
that Perl would be just too slow to use.
It was too slow. The Perl version was faster. As in an order of
magnitude (or two) faster. Which was odd, given that I was linking against
a regular expression library in my C code.
It took me a few days, but I was finally able to figure out the problem.
And no, it wasn't the code I wrote (in Perl or C) that was the problem. Nor
the computer (slow as it was).
-spc (For an interactive program, you only have to be faster than the
human running the program ... )
If you'd read what some of the previous people
have posted on this
topic, you'd get a clue. Instead, I'm left thinking you chose to ignore
any input that isn't what you want to hear.
I haven't read a single statement that explains how native, compiled
code could possibly be beaten by an interpreter.