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Speed of Python vs. Perl

Tim Hammerquist tim at degree.ath.cx
Thu Jan 11 21:45:59 EST 2001 
bowman <bowman at montana.com> wrote:
> 
> Tim Hammerquist <tim at degree.ath.cx> wrote
> >
> > I'm glad you mentioned this.  If speed is _that_ important for any given
> > program, consider if it should be written in a lower-level language such
> > as C/C++, or just cut out the processor intensive section, write and
> > compile in C, and link in.  Both Perl and Python support this.
> 
> Watch the C/C++ part :).

I will now, thanx.  =)

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-Tim Hammerquist <timmy at cpan.org>
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