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elteto 7 hours ago

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

johnisgood 6 hours 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.

rurban 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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