use Perl

• And blead ? (Score:2)

  by rafael (2125)

  Obviously a column is missing :)
  • Re:And blead ? (Score:2)

    by ethan (3163)

    I was just lacking the patience to start up buildaperl and from there build a fresh bleadperl. But now that I have a fairly useful benchmark environment, I am quite sure I'll use it the next time I patch around in bleadperl.
    
    I also would like to release it as Perl::Benchmark to the CPAN. Prior to that, it needs some polishing and maybe some more features. Also, I would like to create a benchmark suite that only relies on core-modules but is still real-world-ish enough to be useful. Maybe I find a way that i
• Regexes (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  Some other things on the other hand are much slower, most notably regexes (almost by a factor 2 when comparing 5.5.4 with a threaded 5.8.6).

  If I may just take one uninformed guess on the cause: Unicode. Internal Unicode support was added starting with 5.6.0.
  • Re:Regexes (Score:2)

    by ethan (3163)

    Internal Unicode support was added starting with 5.6.0.
    
    Ah, that's plausible. I was also thinking of possible causes for this decrease in performance but didn't think of the obvious case.
    
    And the additional slow-down caused by threads is then also fairly obvious: Perl's regex engine, which is very non-reentrant by nature, has to work more reentrantly now.
    
    Other than that, I agree with mir's comment that with all the new features and bugfixes, the results are very favourable for perl and its porters. I alw
• Very impressive (Score:2)

  by mir (51)

  I think these numbers are very impressive. If you consider the increased features (Unicode!) and the bug fixing between 5.5.4 and 5.8.6, then keeping more or less the same speed is quite a feat. Kudos to the porters!

  --
  mirod