Hi, in the perlfaq1-manual, there is the following statement:
"For various reasons, Perl is probably not well-suited for real-time embedded systems, low-level operating systems development work like device drivers or context-switching code, complex multi-threaded shared-memory applications, or extremely large applications." Unfortunately, the reasons are not explained. I am a PhD-student at a research group, where parallel processing is a big issue, and I was wondering if it was possible and feasible to program parallel applications in so called scripting languages, perhaps trading development time for performance in the process. Well, it seems to be possible, as ithreads seem to be working. So I was wondering, what these unexplained reasons are? Is there a document or a posting somewhere, that state these explicitly? Or is this just plain old information? Thanks for your help, Michael Suess
