Perl is absolutely not faster than Python, not even for regexes.

johnisgood 6 months ago | parent | next [-]

It really is though. When I was on the journey to find the fastest interpreted scripting languages, Perl and LuaJIT were one of the fastest ones, meaning Python is slower than both of these languages.

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johnisgood 6 months ago | parent | prev | next [-]

BTW: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44359539

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rurban 6 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Perl is always faster than python. Python is just absurdly bad in performance

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