On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:54:07PM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:08:25AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
(I know I did a little test with sed, a python script, and a perl
script, just changing the
You're not reading the graph right.
LangCPU/sec Kb Mem Lines of code
perl4.72134428
python 8.88149227
Based on this test Perl is twice as fast as Python and uses less
memory. Perl is faster than
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:08:25AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
(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.)
This is from the perl source
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:43:45AM -0500, Bryan DeLuca wrote:
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.
Yes, the results are surprising. According
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:08:25AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
(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
On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 11:08 , Paul Tremblay wrote:
[..]
Certainly, a perl script would be easier to maintain and debug.
Thoughs on how C, java, and perl compare on speed?
I think what you are running into here is that
'c' as is, was not built to do 'regular expression'
work - as
personally I don't do speed while writing perl. I tend to break many keys.
The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's
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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
From: Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
Computing power is cheap, programmers' time is expensive!
Yes, but the programmer's time is only used once.
CPU cycles are used again and again and again ...
The cost of inefficient programs is cumulative and results
in increasing all the
On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 08:36 , Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
Computing power is cheap, programmers' time is expensive!
[..]
The cost of inefficient programs is cumulative and results
in increasing all the infrastructure costs because of the
: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:07 PM
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Subject: Re: speed and perl
On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 08:36 , Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
Computing power is cheap, programmers' time is expensive
On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 10:23 , Nikola Janceski wrote:
[..]
the Microsoft idea is good for games and NON-CRITICAL systems.
but you would want reliablity for critical things.
[..]
I presume that you then disapprove of NT based
weapons systems and avionics packages - and
consider the idea
cursor.
Take us back down to defcon 5.
Sorry, no can do. GIANTWINDOW [new WOPR] is rebooting.
Oh crap.
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From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:23 PM
To: Beginners (E-mail)
Subject: Re: speed and perl
On Friday, August 2, 2002
From: Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
Computing power is cheap, programmers' time is expensive!
Yes, but the programmer's time is only used once.
CPU cycles are used again and again and again ...
So you have to find the right proportion.
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