From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-07T21:11:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question:read file speed

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:59:56PM +0900, ts wrote:
>  Well, sometimes speed and portability are not compatibles.
> 
>  ruby and perl are evil because they use the internal buffer associated
>  with a stream, but perl is a little more evil than ruby and this is why
>  it's faster than ruby.

Or at any rate _one_ reason why it's faster.

That trivial test program was about twice as fast under Perl. I would guess
that calls to the I/O library represent only a small part of that difference
- I don't think any changes should be made (particularly ones which might
sacrifice portability or make the code harder to maintain) without real,
hard profiling evidence.

Regards,

Brian.