Archive for the ‘PERL’ Category

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

How do I send files to the Browser?

So you’ve coded up your new webapp. It does some cool stuff and then produces files in a binary format (like .pdf, .doc, .mp3) and you need to deliver these files to the browser. So how do you do that? These are my thoughts and opinions and do not reflect those of anyone else. Read [...]

Posted on October 12, 2008 at 4:05 am by Paul Brabban · Permalink · One Comment
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