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

[John Porter]

Terrence Monroe Brannon wrote:
> Only taking memory into consideration, Java is faster,
> but when memory and speed are considered, Perl is better.

Memory is cheap; time is expensive.
In other words, I don't mind throwing another gig of ram
at the problem, but I mind greatly having to take another
24 hours of computation time.

As for the specific assertion that Java is worse, in
general, than Perl wrt memory, I am dubious.

-- 
John Porter