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It depends which graphs you look at: These graphs tell me 1. Perl is slightly faster. 2. Perl uses much less memory on average 3. Perl uses less code. http:/

by kentnl 16y ago

It depends which graphs you look at: These graphs tell me 1. Perl is slightly faster. 2. Perl uses much less memory on average 3. Perl uses less code. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=perl http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=yarv&lang2=perl http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al... However, on Ruby18 you do have a substantially bigger problem: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ruby&lang2=perl http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... Lies, Damned lies.

igouy 16y ago
> These graphs tell me It must be the spectacles you're looking through. These graphs tell me that - about the same number of Perl programs are faster than the Ruby 1.9 programs by about the same amount, as there are Ruby programs faster than Perl programs - some of the Perl programs use half the memory of the corresponding Ruby 1.9 programs - the Perl programs and Ruby 1.9 programs use about the same amount of code.