Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C

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From: David Chase
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 18:40

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> Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com) wrote:
> : 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.

Is this really true?  What's the bet?  Is a particular piece of hardware
specified?  On modern RISC machines, carefully crafted C can multiply
large matrices at >50% of peak Mflops.  To compete in Perl, I think
you'd have to run the "contest" on a particularly crufty piece of
hardware.

speaking for myself,

David Chase

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Subject: Re: Relative Speed of Perl vs. Tcl vs. C
Date: 23 Jan 1996 18:40:30 GMT
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