On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Manvendra Bhangui <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. > That's quite interesting. Where was this, if you don't mind sharing that. I haven't written much C at work, and I guess I've never seen much industrial C either then. Never would have expected to be hovering right near assembly.
> However in most of such cases in my experience, the inefficiencies have been > due to bad coding rather than the choice of language. > > Also in one case, I have not been able to beat a program written by someone > else in perl. The program happens to be a greylisting server which involves > searching a IP in a table having millions of entries. The better speed (5x) > in the perl program happens because of a better search algorithm than the > one which I am using in my C program. A good algorithm in any language can > make a huge difference and outweigh everything else. > Yes, that's a given. Have you seen http://norvig.com/java-lisp.html and the links going out of that article? Roshan Mathews _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
