[Fwd: Re: Just starting out.. newbie help :)]

[Terrence Monroe Brannon]

John Porter wrote:

> It will take some work to make a benchmark for comparison
> against, say, Java; but I will be surprised if Perl doesn't
> turn out significantly slower, as usual.
> 


The Great Computer Language Shootout shows Perl and faster than Java and
CAML as being faster than C++

http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/