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Efficiency versus computer science (Score:1)

by toma (3098) on 2002.05.01 1:10 (#7776) Homepage Journal

I have heard that perl has fast regular expressions in part because the code has good locality for both data and instructions, which keeps them inside of the processor cache.
I have heard that the previous perl regex engine beautification attempts were abandoned due to speed problems. Is parrot going to preserve the speed-is-more-important-than-beautiful-code philosophy?

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