This might have been beaten to death today, but I'd like to add my $0.02: 1. You Linux guru says "C would be faster than Perl"? Prove it. Are there any specific benchmarks? Probably not. Remember, assembly language is faster than C!
2. Just this morning I wrote a 3 line Perl fragment to run a program and filter the output. It took me a few minutes. If I had written it in C, it would have taken dozens of lines of code, plus made me responsible for the system call, I/O redirection, file I/O, memory management and pattern matching. Not to mention an hour or more to get it working. 3. If you really want Perl binaries, see if http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm is of any help. -----Original Message----- From: Agustin Rivera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 02 January, 2002 12:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: C vs. Perl Ok, the local Linux guru has proclaimed that C would be faster than Perl. I know C is very effecient so I don't really doubt him, but my question is.... would it make that much of a difference? I certainly wouldn't mind learning C, the only question is would be worth the time to port our Perl scripts over to it? Right now our setup is Apache w/modperl, and I'm getting quite good at taking advantage of modperl's benefits. Hope everyone had a safe New Year, Agustin Rivera Webmaster, Pollstar.com http://www.pollstar.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
