> Afaik perl is a plain old interpreted language with no JIT, what makes it so fast? IDK. I didn't waste time checking why. My guess is that due to the much s

> Afaik perl is a plain old interpreted language with no JIT, what makes it so fast? IDK. I didn't waste time checking why. My guess is that due to the much smaller code size, it reaches a sweetpoint where it fits nicely in the L1 or L2 cache. But it's just a hunch, I couldn't prove it.