On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, dreamwvr wrote:
> hi,
> this could be a can of worms but anyhow here goes. Has anyone timed the
> actual efficiency of Perl vs Java? Reason being is i wrote a state engine as
> a perl module that seemed quite fast ~ 0.33 to 0.54 of a second for slurping
> up values. With recall being about .25 to .35 of a second which seemed quit fast
> to me. Then i was shown a jsp page which i really don't know much about..
> reminded me actually of SSI syntax wise. Well it was doing the same thing using
> Java persistance objects and seemed very fast. Any idea how the languages
> compare as always trying to use the best tool for the job.
There are posts in the archive about this. Here's a quick summary:
You can make Java slow. You can make mod_perl slow.
Java (servlets, jsp, etc) can use a lot of memory. mod_perl can use a lot
of memory.
Servlets can be very fast. mod_perl can be very fast.
I think that covers most of the arguments.
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