[Perl-AI] Just starting out.. newbie help :)

	John Porter
	May 24, 2001 at 1:53 pm

Lee Goddard wrote:
John Porter wrote:

Unless you can implement your critical algorithmic pieces on the
perl regex engine, you're going to be slow.

Or Yacc and Lex

Um, I'm talking about when *perl* is fast...

Let's see your benchmarks. I don't believe you have any.

I want to believe.

What, that Perl can be as fast as C for typical real-world
tasks? I'd like to too, but I already know better.

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John Porter

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Simon Cozens: http://sound-hack.org/ -- SM is fun. ADSM is not. "Safe, Sane, Consensual"... three words that cannot used to describe ADSM. - Graham Reed, sdm.
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Gustaf Bjorksten: ...and just when someone was saying that the list _never_ has flame wars... :P I think y'all missing the point. The original premise that "perl is not fast enough _for_AI_" is incorrect IMHO. This is not about raw execution speed! Perl is ace for modelling sh!t and definately has a place in my AI hacking toolkit. I don't give a damn if it aint the bleedingest lightningest-fast thing on two bits L8rz, gU5t4F Net Cens0rship = Book Burning in the Digital Age Act Now ->

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