Thank-you to everyone for the responses. Roger, 1) I am personally obsessed with effeciency. This is why I am considering moving to C or C++. 2) I am not exactly sure what you mean by "profiled your Perl", however I do do benchmarks on code. I am in the process of redesigning our website, and thus taking this opportunity to improve upon old scripts that will need changing anyways. Current improvements to our main script have it runnning 400% faster than the original. If I can make that 800% with C, I just might reprogram it entirely. 2 1/2) Have not experimented with the Inline module yet. 3) This code could very well last 5 years.
Agustin Rivera Webmaster, Pollstar.com http://www.pollstar.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger C Haslock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Agustin Rivera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:44 AM Subject: Re: C vs. Perl > There are many views on this. > > 1) Well designed and implemented C will be faster if the application is > CPU-intensive. Is this the case? > 2) Have you profiled your Perl? Have you experimented with the Inline > module? > 3) What is the expected lifetime of the code? Is it worth the additional > cost of development to use C? > > - Roger - > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Agustin Rivera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:10 PM > Subject: C vs. Perl > > > > Ok, the local Linux guru has proclaimed that C would be faster than Perl. > I > > know C is very effecient so I don't really doubt him, but my question > is.... > > would it make that much of a difference? I certainly wouldn't mind > learning > > C, the only question is would be worth the time to port our Perl scripts > > over to it? Right now our setup is Apache w/modperl, and I'm getting > quite > > good at taking advantage of modperl's benefits. > > > > Hope everyone had a safe New Year, > > Agustin Rivera > > Webmaster, Pollstar.com > > http://www.pollstar.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
