Hi JavaFan,
First of all, if one's workplace uses Perl, then one would use Perl all the time, and indeed try to program it as efficiently as possible.
Also, I am not a huge expert in this (the reason why I am asking this question), but like any programming language, there are things Perl is very good at (e.g. regexes and parsing files) and not so good at (hardcore mathematical computing if I'm not mistaken).
The purpose of my question was to get a bit more info about this issue, and to gather a few tips (e.g. use a profiler).

I think the issue of Perl and efficiency is an interesting one (in fact it might be a good idea for my next Perl Mongers lecture after I understand it a bit more), and not so silly as you might think.

Cheers mrguy123

In reply to Re^2: Making my Perl program a bit faster by mrguy123
in thread Making my Perl program a bit faster by mrguy123

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