If you are interested in language benchmarks you might want to check out the "Great Computer Language Shootout":
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ It has some surprising results. Enjoy, On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 01:08, Paul Tremblay wrote: > This question may be too vague for a good answer, but my curiosity makes > me ask it anyway. I thought I read somewhere that perl is actually > faster than C for certain tasks. The vagueness of the question probably > lies in exactly what task, who writes the program, the size and type of > data, and a dozen other factors. > > Specifically, I am writing a perl script to convert RTF to XML. I > downloaded a utility called unrtf, written in C, which converts RTF to > HTML, a somewhat easier task. I got depressed when I ran unrtf on > small files and saw that it didn't take *any* time. But when I ran it on > a big file of 1.8 megabytes, it actually took 6 minutes and 30 seconds. > My script only took a minute! (Hooray, after all this hard work, that's > a little encouraging to see!) > > When I ran the same file through a java utility called majix, it took > over a minute. It is hard to say exactly, because majix supplies their > own timer, and this timer only starts when java starts processing the > documents, some 20 or 30 seconds after you launch it. > > I had actually considered learning C++ to make my little script really > fast so that people would consider using it. I really doubt I would have > really gone through all that trouble, but now I am wondering if C++ > would have given that much of a time advantage--if any at all. > > Certainly, a perl script would be easier to maintain and debug. > > Thoughs on how C, java, and perl compare on speed? > > (I know I did a little test with sed, a python script, and a perl > script, just changing the word "the" to "teh" in a huge file. Sed and > python took about he same time, while perl was six times faster.) > > Paul > > > > -- > > ************************ > *Paul Tremblay * > *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* > ************************ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Bryan DeLuca UNIX guy Public key available at: ftp://ftp.supakewl.com/pub/bryan_pub.key This E-mail was scanned by Carnivore. Get GNUpg http://www.gnupg.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
