You are right. Only taking memory into consideration, Java is faster,
but when memory and speed are considered, Perl is better.
also note, this contest forced all programs to be written the same
way.In some cases , Perl programs could've been faster if given free
expression.
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Terrence Brannon
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Lee Goddard wrote:
>
> 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
