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David L. Cassell on February 09, 2000 at 12:43:16:
Comments:
Me again. I still disagree on the technical points of Perl as an
interpreted vs compiled language - as per my previous feedback.
A new point I want to make with regard to the wording here: Perl
is *not* slower than Java. Take a look in Kernighan and Pike (1999). They ran a test on a variety of languages, using a genetic programming algorithm - mostly computing, which should work to Perl's disadvantage. But Perl was far, far faster than Java on both platforms - and was even faster than C++ on the win32 platform. The 'interpret' phase may be an insignificant fraction of the time involved.
Of course, you can totally skip the 'interpret' phase with Perl
[as with Java Servlets] by using one of the methods of maintaining Perl code in the webserver's memory: mod_perl, FastCGI, PerlEx, VelociGen, etc.
Well, I think I have griped enough...
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