RE: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

[Lee Goddard]

From: John Porter 
> Lee Goddard wrote:
> > John Porter wrote:
> > > Unless you can implement your critical algorithmic pieces on the
> > > perl regex engine, you're going to be slow.
> > 
> > Or Yacc and Lex
> 
> Um, I'm talking about when *perl* is fast...

Oh sorry - thought you were saying that perl is *faster* than C 
on that bit.  It wasn't in my experience.  Sadly.

But hey, Perl 6.... you never know!

 
> > > Let's see your benchmarks. I don't believe you have any.
> > 
> > I want to believe.
> 
> What, that Perl can be as fast as C for typical real-world
> tasks?  I'd like to too, but I already know better.

Yup.

lee