# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Wu, Gang \(Steven\)
# on Monday 29 March 2004 06:48 pm:
|The result showed that gawk was about 10 times faster. Is this typical?
|What slows down Perl so much? I used "split" in Perl to parse the
|records. (Cannot use unpack because data is not fixed-width.)
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|Also, after I embed awk in Perl, the speed was even slower than pure
|Perl. Why is that?
You're a bit off-topic for inline-perl here, and it's really hard to say
without seeing the code that you are using to benchmark this.
Try comp.lang.perl.misc
--Eric
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