RE: [Fwd: Re: Just starting out.. newbie help :)]

From: Terrence Monroe Brannon [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> John Porter wrote:
> 
> > It will take some work to make a benchmark for comparison
> > against, say, Java; but I will be surprised if Perl doesn't
> > turn out significantly slower, as usual.
> > 
> 
> 
> The Great Computer Language Shootout shows Perl and faster than Java and
> CAML as being faster than C++
> 
> http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/

Great site.

Maybe I misread you or the site, but what I see is: 

1. Awk gawk 
4. C gcc egcs-2.91.66 
5. C++ g++ egcs-2.91.66 
6. Common Lisp cmucl 
...
13. Java 
...
18. PHP 
19. Perl 

(http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/)

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