I created a test program to do fibonacci series recursively in Perl, Python,
Scheme, Lisp, C, and OCaML.  Needless to say, OCaML kicked ass ;) But between
Perl and Python, Python performed better by about 20%.  On the other hand,
fibonacci series is a bit of a different application than whatever tasks
you may be talking about.

On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:03:59AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:00:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote:
> > > > > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested 
> > > > > one yet.
> > > > > I doubt there is one.
> > > > 
> > > > I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines 
> > > > die
> > > > of an heart-attack whenever an installation task has to occur...
> > > 
> > > Bollocks. Profile running perl sometime. Then profile running dpkg.
> > 
> > Let me second this.  Perl is very, very fast.
> > 
> > Perl is faster than most people's hand-crafted C code for certain
> > tasks (mainly pattern matching type tasks, also its associative array
> > implementation is pretty nippy).
> > 
> > On my 68020 machine, using a short perl script was an order of
> > magnitude faster than sed or awk, even for exactly the kind of pattern 
> > matching tasks that sed and awk are designed for.
> > 
> > Perl ain't your problem, it really ain't.
> > 
> > Jules
> > 
> 
> 
> Can you compare Perl speed to Python? 
> Just curious, have no prior knowledge on this.
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