in reply to FASTER PERL (velocigen velometer mod perl or Perl Server Pages)

Actually, Perl is not an interpreted lang (in the way you probably mean). Read this: http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/comp-vs-interp.html.
IME, it's about 90% as fast as C, all things being equal ie algorithm, programmmer skill etc.

Cheers
Chris

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Re^2: FASTER PERL (velocigen velometer mod perl or Perl Server Pages)
by jettero (Monsignor) on Nov 28, 2007 at 14:46 UTC

    It's probably 90% as fast as C for string analysis and list building... But compare their function call stacks once. Then it's only about 1% as fast as C.

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    -Paul

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