SPUG: Does Perl Scale? (Was: Evolution of Perl)

[MichaelRUnningWolf at att.net]

Here, here...

Agreed:

My personal-best is a 10X improvement within the first 2
hours on a new job (good karma points).  [[I rewrote
back-ticks in a shell script, eliminating *lots* of
fork/exec.]]

It was a handy refactoring to have in my bag of
(language-independant) tools.

Michael Wolf



> "Melissa D. Binde" <binde at terindell.com> writes:
> 
> | It's important to not use that statement to justify "developers should never
> | have to write good code or optimize it, because hardware is always cheaper
> | than their time."
> 
> It bears pointing out that ninety percent of speed issues aren't issues of
> interpreted vs compiled, nor is it compiler optimization or things like that.
> It's just badly swotted-up code.  I can't tell you how many times I've doubled
> the speed of someone else's program just by moving crap out of a loop that
> didn't have to be in there.  :)
> 

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