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That kind of shows my point. (Although not as well as some of the others.) On that particular benchmark Perl is faster than the fastest JRuby, and Python bench
by nmcfarl 13y ago
That kind of shows my point. (Although not as well as some of the others.)
On that particular benchmark Perl is faster than the fastest JRuby, and Python benchmarks. And faster than 11 other benchmarks, but the secondary perl benchmark program is the slowest of the bunch...
- TylerE 13y agoIt's a log scale though, so it doesn't capture the magnitude of how much slower it is. When your argument is that you're 100x instead of 103x slower than C, that's not very convincing.
- nmcfarl 13y agoNot if it matters much, but I have no problem with the argument that some things should be written in C or on top of the JVM for performance reasons. My problem is with people claiming that some popular scripting language, say Ruby, is massively faster than all the rest. Which as a general rule is simply not true (although it may be the cases, for some well defined set of problems).