From: Terrence Monroe Brannon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> 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/
Great site.
Maybe I misread you or the site, but what I see is:
1. Awk gawk
4. C gcc egcs-2.91.66
5. C++ g++ egcs-2.91.66
6. Common Lisp cmucl
...
13. Java
...
18. PHP
19. Perl
(http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/)
lee
