Simply saying Perl is slow sounds to me like "I didn't really try that hard".
I thought the Perl motto was "Making easy problems easy and hard problems possible", not "Bang your head against a wall for a long time, since theoretically you might be able to make it fast enough". Sure, you could write your own customized perl compiler and you might be able to squeeze out a little more performance, but it's a matter of economics. Sometimes you bite the bullet and use a language where it is easier to get close the the maximum performance your hardware allows. Maybe you should try optimizing some of the Perl programs over at the shootout. I'd really like to see a good perl implementation of the raytrace benchmark.

In reply to Re^4: Perl 5's greatest limitation is...? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl 5's greatest limitation is...? by BrowserUk

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