Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:21:45 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld <none@regnauld--deepo.prosa.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk> To: bsd-dk@hotel.prosa.dk Subject: Re: FreeBSD og danske tegn
Anton Berezin writes:
> >> Eventually I will get around to write my own with the functionality
> >> I want, in Perl.
>
> > So you can use 25 MB of RAM, and 100% CPU for 1 minute to read a
> > 3000 mail mailbox ?
>
> Well, one day the following appeared in comp.lang.perl.moderated:
>
> PLATFORM 250mhz Irix 400mhx pII M/S line count
> C 0.36 sec 0.30 sec 150
> Java 4.9 9.2 105
> C++/STL/deque 2.6 11.2 70
> C++/STL/list 1.7 1.5 70
> Awk 2.2 2.1 20
> Perl 1.8 1.0 18
>
> <snip>
>
> Interesting, how would you back up your claims in regard to Perl
> speed/memory usage?
Ah hell, I guess I should have added that smiley anyway :-)
Perl _IS_ fast -- but it IS slow at LAUNCH time. It runs
very fast after. Ambiguous formulation.
My first statement was tongue-in-cheek (I don't know the
Danish equivalent for that -- straight faced humor ?).
Of course I didn't go out and measure how long it
takes for a MUA written in Perl to run -- that would mean
I _had_ written the MUA in the first place, and Lasse
would be grateful :-)
You came up with great statistics -- so to answer your question:
- I don't back up my claims about 100% CPU, 1 minute and
25 MB of RAM :-)
Anyway, this is pointless -- if I had such a grudge against
Perl, why would I program in it and use:
- majordomo
- majorcool
- MHonArc
- MRTG
etc...
--
-[ Philippe Regnauld / Sysadmin ]-
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