that is what is so nice about Perl - it translates nearly exactly over to C when you are writing it

Perhaps that's part of your problem. I don't mean that in a nasty way - I know when I started writing Perl my code looked a lot like C too. The secret to writing Perl that runs fast is to use Perl's built-in functions to do the work for you, since they are written in optimised C (albeit optimised for a general case). The more lines of Perl code that you write, the more time Perl will need to spend branching and switching between ops. Whereas if you can pare your code down so that the work gets done by map, foreach, tr, regexes etc then the execution time should drop.

It really raises a red flag for me that your Perl implementation ended up longer than the equivalent thing written in C. These days when I have to write C I get frustrated at how many lines of code I have to execute to do anything useful.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Confirming what we already knew by grantm
in thread Confirming what we already knew by AssFace

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