-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:realbasic-nug->[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Williamson > >Perl is amazingly fast. I wrote a simple search engine for my site (about >500 pages), and I'm simply shocked at how fast it can open all those files, >much less do any searching!
I am not amazed perl is fast in this kind of operations: it was born to handle text; perl stays for "Practical Extractor and Report Language", so I guess that is its bread for its teeth. :-) Apart that, its parser, and compiler is really fast, so it can be fast, especially in regular expression pattern handling. -- ~Alberto Paderno _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
