From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 9 19:24:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717A337B5C3 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 19:24:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA04724; Tue, 9 May 2000 20:24:24 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000509202357.0487bc20@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 20:24:20 -0600 To: Kevin Lyons , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: assembly vs C In-Reply-To: <200005100209.VAA13005@corserv.corserv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:09 PM 5/9/2000, Kevin Lyons wrote: >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. I doubt it. We used MMX instructions. --Brett "You're not just e-mailing her, you're e-mailing anyone she's ever e-mailed." -- Dayton Daily News Cartoonist Mike Peters To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message