RE: Just starting out.. newbie help :)

While I hesitate to step into what seems like a religious war, there's an 
attempt at measuring processing time for a number of compiled and script 
languanges in the document

wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.pdf

Not an AI benchmark, but string/dictionary search which is sometimes a component 
of AI programs. It's extremely hard to prove that any one language is in general 
any better at everything than another. I think that's probably a corallary of 
the "no free lunch" theorem.

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> > http://dev.scriptics.com/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html
> > 
> > Here are some studies that show that using scripting
> > languages like perl saves you programming time.
> 
> Yeah, we all know *that*...!  Seriously, though: have you anything
> about *processing* time, which was the point I tried to make without
> starting this bloody flame.
> 
> lee

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