[oak perl] New IBM/Sony/Toshiba microprocessor is good news for Perl

Adrien Lamothe alamozzz at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 8 11:48:07 PST 2005


IBM/Sony/Toshiba announced a new microprocessor
yesterday, that promises to perform 10 times
faster than current offerings. AMD, Intel and
Sun Microsystems plan to release similar
microprocessors in the near future.

A URL with the story is:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/cell_processor

What does this have to do with Perl? Well, as an
interpreted language, Perl programs will always
run slower than their compiled cousins. Interpreted
languages always benefit from hardware speed
increases. So, on this newer hardware, Perl may
be considered for tasks that it previously wasn't.

-- Adrien



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