Speed of Python vs. Perl

David Allen s2mdalle at titan.vcu.edu
Sat Jan 6 14:22:27 EST 2001


In article <t5eojolijv1e58 at corp.supernews.com>, "AndroidMonkey"
<androidmonkey[REMOVETHIS]@hotmail.com> wrote:

> In the last Maximum Linux magazine, there was an article about using
> Perl for a car MP3 player.  It got me wondering - What's the speed of
> Python like compared to Perl? I've never used Perl before, so I hope
> someone could answer my question here. Thanks  -vm

>From what I've seen and heard, if you must have an
answer, it's probably that perl may have a slight
edge.  But realistically, the question is loaded,
since python and perl don't often do things in the
same way.

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David Allen
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