On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Randal L. Schwartz <mer...@stonehenge.com>wrote:
> The speed of a language has very little to do with "interpreted" or > "compiled". There's a lot more going on, far more variables than that, > like > whether the language has early or late binding, or expensive flexible data > types. > > That's the myth I'm talking about. > > For example, bash's slowness is because it has to do a lot of forking. > Nothing to do with "interpreted". I could go down that list and explain > each > one of those. > I admit that I labor under the myth (and I imagine that a significant portion of the population of programmers and SwEng managers do, too), but I am intrigued by Randal's thesis. Some pointers to literature on the subject would be most welcome. (Never let it be said, however, that I would want to put the kibosh on what is shaping up to be a lively discussion). - tony _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
