You're not reading the graph right.
LangCPU/sec Kb Mem Lines of code
perl4.72134428
python 8.88149227
Based on this test Perl is twice as fast as Python and uses less
memory. Perl is faster than g
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:54:07PM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:08:25AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> >
> > > (I know I did a little test with sed, a python script, and a perl
> > > script, just cha
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:08:25AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
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> > (I know I did a little test with sed, a python script, and a perl
> > script, just changing the word "the" to "teh" in a huge file. Sed and
> > python took about
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. Ac
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:08:25AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> (I know I did a little test with sed, a python script, and a perl
> script, just changing the word "the" to "teh" in a huge file. Sed and
> python took about he same time, while perl was six times faster.)
This is from the perl sou
From: "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
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> > Computing power is cheap, programmers' time is expensive!
> >
>
> Yes, but the programmer's time is only used once.
> CPU cycles are used again and again and again ...
So you have to find the righ
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On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 10:23 , Nikola Janceski wrote:
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> the Microsoft idea is good for games and NON-CRITICAL systems.
> but you would want reliablity for critical things.
[..]
I presume that you then disapprove of NT based
weapons systems and avionics packages - and
consider the ide
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> From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: Re: speed and perl
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> On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 08:36 , Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
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On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 08:36 , Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
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>> Computing power is cheap, programmers' time is expensive!
[..]
> The cost of inefficient programs is cumulative and results
> in increasing all the infrastructure costs because of th
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
>
> Computing power is cheap, programmers' time is expensive!
>
Yes, but the programmer's time is only used once.
CPU cycles are used again and again and again ...
The cost of inefficient programs is cumulative and results
in increasing all the i
From: Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This question may be too vague for a good answer, but my curiosity
> makes me ask it anyway. I thought I read somewhere that perl is
> actually faster than C for certain tasks. The vagueness of the
> question probably lies in exactly what task, who writes
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.
Enjoy,
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 01:08, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> This question may be too vague for a good answer, bu
personally I don't do speed while writing perl. I tend to break many keys.
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On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 11:08 , Paul Tremblay wrote:
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> Certainly, a perl script would be easier to maintain and debug.
>
> Thoughs on how C, java, and perl compare on speed?
I think what you are running into here is that
'c' as is, was not built to do 'regular expression'
work - as
This question may be too vague for a good answer, but my curiosity makes
me ask it anyway. I thought I read somewhere that perl is actually
faster than C for certain tasks. The vagueness of the question probably
lies in exactly what task, who writes the program, the size and type of
data, and a do
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