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

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From: Hugh J.E. Davies
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 11:25

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In article <4e3a2u$eoa@wcap.centerline.com>, chase@centerline.com (David Chase) writes:
>> 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.

Forgive my ignorance, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but if
the 'C' is running faster because of faster hardware, wouldn't perl
also? What would make a 'C' program run faster but not the 'perl'
interpreter?


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