On Thu, 18 May 2000, Autarch wrote:

> C seems like serious overkill for something to simply
> generate plain text output.  How slow is making a string
> in perl compared to doing it in C?  I can't imagine
> there's to much of a difference.

pretty slow if you build a string using .= instead of using
smarter methods, like pushing strings onto an array and then
joining it.

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