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I actually programmed it, for that exact scenario, and there's some really nice C++ libraries that outperform Perl, even in the cases you mentioned. Sure, Perl
by moralestapia 5y ago
I actually programmed it, for that exact scenario, and there's some really nice C++ libraries that outperform Perl, even in the cases you mentioned. Sure, Perl it's easier, but not necessarily faster.
You can downvote this comment as well, code is code at the end of the day :^)
- vlovich123 5y agoI’m not downvoting you. I shared your prior but I couldn’t find any benchmarks showing it in a fair comparison. Now of course it’s entirely possible that bioinformatics applications don’t really need Perl features in most applications so they would benefit from something else. Rust also has fancy regex crate that has an advanced fused implementation to detect when it can use the faster form automatically. But I haven’t found any benchmarks definitively showing other implementations beating Perl in use cases it’s optimized for (complex backtracking and lookaround).