Re: The perl challenge

[Jan Erik Moström <lists at mostrom dot pp dot se>]

> > Imagine my surprise when it took RB a minute to do what perl did in
> > 15 seconds. I'm not surprised that perl is faster, only HOW much
> > faster it is. My argument was going to be, "see, difference wasn't
> > that much, and RB is much easier to read," but these results make it
> > no contest.
> >
> > So my question is: Why is RB so much slower? What is it doing that's
> > making the difference? And could I do something to close the gap?
I missed the original post so I don't know what the perl script 
actually did but perl is very very good at string handling and 
regular expressions. At some time I compared perl with other 
languages that also used the same regular expression for 
processing text files and the difference was *huge* ... in fact 
I'm surprised that the difference isn't bigger (assuming we're 
talking string processing and regular expressions).

                        jem
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