Hello monks! I have been a perl developer for some time. Needless to say I use it every chance I get. What I am tasked with now is doing some hard core computational finance related tasks. I don't know how much many of you know about computing stock related data but the types of stats I need to come up with are numerous and these would have to be computed every day for numerous stocks and sometimes on the fly. It's massive number crunching. (It will need to be done everyday for charts, etc)

I am all about the best tool for the job but I'm not sure that Perl represents my fastest choice with this kind of need. It may be the ONLY time in my life I have said that about, what I feel, is the best language ever.

Does anyone know if Perl would indeed be worth using for this gargantuan number crunching task? I absolutely refuse to remove Perl from the equation. The site I am working on needs things like authentication and I have my mind made up about using Catalyst. I would think the only other way to handle it would be to still use Perl but to hand off the extremely heavy lifting to some C++.

Any words of advice or input is appreciated.There is no other group's opinion I respect more than you monks.

In reply to Server side computational suggestion by sherab

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