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A microbenchmark comparing Perl and Python: Computer Language Shootout
Actually Perl is not always faster
Posted May 29, 2006 23:10 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Posted Jul 15, 2006 21:02 UTC (Sat) by Barry (guest, #39099) [Link]
There's some data based on the Computer Language Shootout at the bottom of this page.
On Debian : AMD Sempron, Python performed faster than Perl in 9 out of 15 benchmarks.
On Gentoo : Intel® Pentium® 4, Python performed faster than Perl in 13 out of 16 benchmarks.
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