Re: oracle-oci speed question

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:08:03PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:08:55PM -0700, Peschko, Edward wrote:
> > Exactly how much of a speed penalty does one incur by using Oracle-OCI in
> > perl as opposed to C? Just curious.....
> 
>     |<------ this much ----->|

A slightly more useful answer is that I think it would be insignificant
in most cases (for some values of insignificant :)

Perl itself is fast and the XS wrapper around the OCI calls is also fast.
But obviously both are overheads you won't have with pure C code.

> Try it and let us know.

Tim.