Re: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

Lee Goddard wrote:
> John Porter wrote:
> > Unless you can implement your critical algorithmic pieces on the
> > perl regex engine, you're going to be slow.
> 
> Or Yacc and Lex

Um, I'm talking about when *perl* is fast...



> > Let's see your benchmarks. I don't believe you have any.
> 
> I want to believe.

What, that Perl can be as fast as C for typical real-world
tasks?  I'd like to too, but I already know better.


-- 
John Porter