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

George Woolley george at metaart.org
Tue Feb 8 13:19:54 PST 2005


Yesterday, I clicked on a link to this story on Adrien's site
a bit more than an hour after the article came out.
At that time I also read his blog entry on it
which was already out.
Adrien's site is at
   http://www.adriensweb.com/
His blog is at
   http://www.adriensweb.com/weblog.html
George


On Tuesday 08 February 2005 11:48 am, Adrien Lamothe wrote:
> 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
> ...
> =====
> Adrien Lamothe
> www.adriensweb.com
...



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