29 Apr
2016
29 Apr
'16
10:11 a.m.
On 29 Apr 2016, at 19:03 , Swift Griggs
<swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016, Raymond Wiker wrote:
It's not *generally* the case that cl-ppcre is faster than PCRE - it depends
completely on the (Common) Lisp implementation that it is running in.
The regular expression support in Perl is
implemented in C, and are
supposedly fairly fast.
They are faster than some, like Ruby and slower than others like
(apparently) LISP. That didn't stop a Lisp programmer from
implementing PCREs in Lisp (that
supposedly slow and inefficient language),
Cool. Which LISP ? CL ? and getting
better performance than Perl :-)
Hehe, well, right on then.
My opinion is that benchmarking and subsequent proclamations using
scripting languages is like racing snails vs slime molds (my money is on
the snails, BTW). It's all fun until someone shows you a graph of the same
algorithm in C and puts a quarter-horse in the race. Then your saying to
yourself things like "Should I be 10x or 15x slower?" :-P
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-are-fastest.html
-Swift