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Date:      Tue, 9 May 2000 21:09:52 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.corserv.com>
To:        brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org
Subject:   Re: assembly vs C
Message-ID:  <200005100209.VAA13005@corserv.corserv.com>

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> At 02:26 PM 5/9/2000, J McKitrick wrote:
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> And when you're doing intense pattern matching in ANY environment -- including
> BSD -- the results are amazing. I've given people 500x (that's 500x, not 500%)
> speedups over their old, creaky Perl scripts. (The client in one case thought
> that his Web app was unscalable; it was still slow after he distributed
> it among a whole rack of servers. Now, he has all of these extra CPUs that
> are just loafing along....)
>
Well almost anything is faster than PERL.  Why PERL continues to be used on
production webservers when you have C tools like CGIC is beyond understanding.
Its almost as bad as using VB under asp!  I suspect the pattern matching
routine could have approached 500x if written in tight C.



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