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Date:      Wed, 10 May 2000 13:05:56 +0200
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>
To:        Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.corserv.com>
Cc:        brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org
Subject:   Re: assembly vs C
Message-ID:  <20000510130556.C18760@plab.ku.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200005100209.VAA13005@corserv.corserv.com>; from klyons@corserv.corserv.com on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 09:09:52PM -0500
References:  <200005100209.VAA13005@corserv.corserv.com>

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On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 09:09:52PM -0500, 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!

See
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-04/msg01479.html
for an interesting counter-example.

> I suspect the pattern matching routine could have approached 500x if
> written in tight C.

Pattern matching routines in Perl *are* written in tight C.  Try to
compare Perl speed with the speed of regex(3) for even simple regexes,
and you'll be surprised.  Pcre port is there for a reason, you know...
:-)

Cheers,
-- 
Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>
The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen


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