in reply to Subroutine overhead in Perl

Did you guys also time the startup of the java runtime?

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Re^2: Subroutine overhead in Perl
by enemyofthestate (Monk) on Nov 06, 2007 at 18:40 UTC
    We just used /usr/bin/time to measure the over all execution time:
    $ time java -cp $CLASSPATH:. SudoKu d.txt $ time ./sudoku.pl <d.txt
      It has been a while since I have developed java code, but I think this means the java was already compiled, while the compile time was included in the perl.

        So? Aside that it's not entirely true — Java run-time engines typically compile Java bytecode into native code at run-time — it is not standard behaviour to run Java programs from their sources. Perl's developers made a choice to parse the source every time, and Java should not be penalized for it.