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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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