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I don't think that's true with Perl at least, unless something has changed dramatically very recently.

• hrez 11y ago
  If you use it to glue/pipe bunch of tools written in C it can easily be faster.
  • paulddraper 11y ago
    That's one recommend approach towards Python. E.g. numpy. The other approach is pure Python and then using PyPy's JIT.
  • lmedinas 11y ago
    Which often is what you do in Bash with grep, cp, mv, find etc...