Re: Tcl/Lisp/Python: A "User" point of view

Tom Christiansen (tchrist@mox.perl.com)
29 Sep 1994 22:39:51 GMT

:-> In comp.lang.tcl, mohr@fullsail.cs.uoregon.edu (Bernd W. Mohr) writes:
:%time perl tst.perl
:2.21u 0.04s 0:02.25 100.0%
:%time tclsh tst.tcl
:0.80u 0.03s 0:00.87 95.4%
:
:So what did you prove?

That the perl version was coded in a way that made it run 15x slower
than it needs to. 2.21/15 is 0.147, which is much better.

-tom

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Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com