From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 10 4: 5: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from plab.ku.dk (plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEA137B652 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 04:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tobez@plab.ku.dk) Received: (from tobez@localhost) by plab.ku.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA20018; Wed, 10 May 2000 13:05:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tobez) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:05:56 +0200 From: Anton Berezin To: Kevin Lyons Cc: brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: assembly vs C Message-ID: <20000510130556.C18760@plab.ku.dk> References: <200005100209.VAA13005@corserv.corserv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005100209.VAA13005@corserv.corserv.com>; from klyons@corserv.corserv.com on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 09:09:52PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message