Re: Performance & Perl

robic0@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Or C?
>
> (Disclaimer: I have not delved into the Perl source)
>
> How close does Perl follow C as far as primatives?

Um, not at all. Perl primitives are scalar, self-resizing arrays,
and hashes. C primitives are floats, doubles, ints, bytes, etc, and
primitive arrays.


> Can I rely on Perl language constructs to follow C when
> writing performance code?

I have no idea what that means.

>
> In a runtime race will a Perl for loop time exactly the same as a
> C for loop?

No. A C for loop won't even time *exactly* the same as a C for loop.

>When the race begins, if not, why not?

Why would they?

>
> Any divergence in stack processing Perl to C?

I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I'm pretty sure the
answer is yes.

>
> Is there such a thing as a Perl "temporary" on the stack?
>
> Why would I need to care about any of this on a "higher level"
> language,

Um, I don't know. Why is purply my favorite color?

> or is Perl a higher level language?

Higher than what? C? Yes.

Xho

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