Archive for January 9, 2010

Perl is slower and faster than Java

Bit of a random one coming up… I needed to get an measure of the difference in performance between Perl and Java for a simple client application, so I wrote the traditional ‘Hello World’ app in both and ran a bunch of executions averaging over the time from start to end of execution. The net [...]

Posted on January 9, 2010 at 12:39 am by Paul Brabban · Permalink · 5 Comments
In: Development, Java, PERL