14 Jan
1999
14 Jan
'99
3:45 p.m.
Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Roger Merchberger once stated:
Now, how can Perl be faster than C when it's written in C?
-spc (Or is it now written in Perl? 8-)
Are we allowed to count coding (Hell, typing) time in speed tests?
If that's allowed _anything_ in Perl is faster than C if it can be
written in Perl. (I'll recompute if somebody writes a kernel in
Perl, that being one of the things I _think_ can't be written --
but I'd love it if it was.)
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For-Next is interpreted when executed. It is at
that point that the
relevant machine language instructions are generated and executed. Machine
language is low-level, C is slightly higher, BASIC is definitely
high-level
And Perl is some of most of these - at times faster than C, yet sometimes
simpler than Basic, almost as powerful as APL, and runs on more machines
than Java! (of course, APL runs on more machines than Java...)