On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:35, Britton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > This just isn't true. Perl at least is brought to its knees by a variety > of problems that C has no trouble with whatsoever. I've had simple > pixel-crawling image processing algorithms take a day to run in Perl, when > I rewrote in C about 30 seconds. And that's with PDL (admittedly PDL call > overhead was I think the major thing slowing perl down, but that's hardly > reassuring). The scripting languages just aren't anywhere near as fast as > the older, simpler, compiled ones. Its not that I don't still write first > drafts of many codes in perl, its just that now I budget time to rewrite > them in C if I need to (its still usually faster overall to prototype > first in perl, even if you know you are doomed speed-wise). I don't know > if perl and cobol have the same relationship, or if there are common > business tasks that still need the speed, but it seems like a definite > possibility.
You might want to try Python as a prototyping, and even implementation, language. It has many graphics libraries that are coded in C for speed. Thus, you get the benefits of a VHLL plus a LLL (low level language) when speed is needed. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA 4 degrees from Vladimir Putin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]