You're not reading the graph right. Lang CPU/sec Kb Mem Lines of code
perl 4.72 1344 28 python 8.88 1492 27 Based on this test Perl is twice as fast as Python and uses less memory. Perl is faster than gcc and g++ in this test as well. The graph can be deceptive. Read the stats to the left of the graph. Hope this helps, On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 14:52, Paul Tremblay wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:43:45AM -0500, Bryan DeLuca wrote: > > If you are interested in language benchmarks you might want to check out > > the "Great Computer Language Shootout": > > > > http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ > > > > It has some surprising results. > > > > Yes, the results are surprising. According to these benchmarks, perl is > not that much faster than python when doing regexs. Can this be so? It > seems when I have done my own anecdotal, unscientific tests, perl was so > much faster that I decided to write my script in perl. > > I would have expected perl to blow python or java or even C right out of > the water when it comes to munging text. > > Paul > > -- > > ************************ > *Paul Tremblay * > *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* > ************************ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Bryan DeLuca UNIX guy Public key available at: ftp://ftp.supakewl.com/pub/bryan_pub.key This E-mail was scanned by Carnivore. Get GNUpg http://www.gnupg.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
