Actually Perl is not always faster

Posted Jul 15, 2006 21:02 UTC (Sat) by Barry (guest, #39099)
In reply to: Actually Perl is not always faster by scottt
Parent article: The Python "Need for Speed" Sprint

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.