🚀 go-pugleaf

In comp.lang.perl, 
    charles@pop3.demon.co.uk (Charlie Stross) writes:
:I have occasionally speculated about the usefulness of a small, 
:stripped-down perl subset for use as an explicit awk replacement. 
:If I was going to say _why_ I want such a toy, I'd haver a bit and
:finally come down on the side of fast string mangling. It would need
:rapid startup -- faster than the existing Perl -- but could do without
:a lot of the more complex features of Perl (system calls, file and
:process management, sockets, object orientation and any post-Perl 4
:language accretions, source level debugger). The only exceptions would
:be the inclusion of the BEGIN and END patterns.

Oh my! But perl really is very slow to start up: on my abysmally slow
and overloaded sparc classic, it takes 4.58 user seconds and 14.22
systems seconds to run an empty perl program -- ONE HUNDRED TIMES.
That's a whopping 0.0458 user seconds and 0.1422 system seconds per
run.  Obviously this is too much overhead for a small program.

--tom
-- 
Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com
:The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for.
By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.  :-)
	--Larry Wall in <1993Dec13.213032.26623@netlabs.com>