[NTLUG:Discuss] OT Perl vs C question

[brad angelcyk]

# man perlcc

Produces huge binaries, but you might save that second.  :-)


On 4/26/05, Albert Modderkolk <mdd at advwebsys.com> wrote:
> Probably Perl will produce these reports a month earlier but a second
> later...
> 
> Ciao, Albert
> 
> Fred James wrote:
> > All
> > I have a multi part data to report processing project
> > (1) get some data (flat files produced by SQL queries)
> > (2) process the data (dump it all into array(s), consolidating and
> > totaling on the fly)
> > (3) produce reports (back through the array(s), a few final
> > calculations, formatting, and output formated report(s))
> >
> > I am considering Perl because it seems to have the nice feature of
> > unlimited arrays without declaring them and allocating space (is that
> > true?)
> >
> > So, my question:  In a moderate volume data processing project, say
> > reading 7 flat files of 3 to 7 fields each, and > 500,000 records each,
> > and doing something like steps 2 and 3 (above), how does Perl compare to
> > C in terms of speed?
> >
> > Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
> > Regards
> > Fred James
> >
> 
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