I would always use Python over Perl for ad-hoc scripting jobs above a trivial level of complexity, but would worry about its performance vs Perl for more perman

I would always use Python over Perl for ad-hoc scripting jobs above a trivial level of complexity, but would worry about its performance vs Perl for more permanent tasks. Worked on a codebase that has a lot of Perl glue, including a lot of text munging, and tbh whilst rewriting that stuff in Python would mean that it's not reliant on grey old geezers to maintain it, I would worry about the performance hit. Wonder if commenters have any explicit comparisons they could share.