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Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Hollebeek <tim@franck> writes:
> 
> Tim> An important point, though, is that all 'reasonably' written C programs
> Tim> will run within a factor of 2 or so of 'about as fast as you can get,
> Tim> while for some problems, Perl won't be able to break through about a
> Tim> factor of 7 or so, even if you are a Perl expert.
> 
> I just want to point out to everyone that you are simply making that
> figure up based on what you think Perl is doing internally.
> 
> Tom Christiansen has had a long-standing bet that someone can't give
> him a program in C that he can't make run no more than "e" times
> slower (about 2.8 for you non-math-geeks) in Perl.  So far, no one's
> done it.
> 
> That's also been my experience as well.  Perl is *not* slow.  In fact,
> a Perl-written egrep is *faster* than most vendor's egrep, for
> example.
> 
> So, if you have a number of "7-times-slower" programs, post'em, and I
> bet we can easily boost their speed by two or three times.
> 
> ObDisclaimer: Yes, I know a few things about Perl. :-)
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