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Having written lots of Perl and Python, Perl just _felt_ fast (I don't have benchmarks to back this up). Also agree on the included in OS point (when I started
by noisy_boy 5y ago
Having written lots of Perl and Python, Perl just _felt_ fast (I don't have benchmarks to back this up). Also agree on the included in OS point (when I started coding in Perl, it came pre-installed on Sun Solaris; I do remember seeing some old version of Python too but by then we already had written a bunch of Perl).
- hedora 5y agoGlobal variables in python are (used to be?) about 10x slower than variables in a scope. I gave up on python for other reasons (breaking changes every few months) before someone pointed that out to me. Anyway, for me, that was why Python “felt” slower than Perl.