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Re:Finally, a Makefile formatter (50 years overdue) by elteto on Sunday June 22, 2025 @10:10AM (#44347093)
Perl is absolutely not faster than Python, not even for regexes.
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Re:Finally, a Makefile formatter (50 years overdue) by johnisgood on Sunday June 22, 2025 @11:50AM (#44347888)
It really is though. When I was on the journey to find the fastest interpreted scripting languages, Perl and LuaJIT were one of the fastest ones, meaning Python is slower than both of these languages.
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Re:Finally, a Makefile formatter (50 years overdue) by rurban on Sunday June 22, 2025 @11:02AM (#44347465)
Perl is always faster than python. Python is just absurdly bad in performance
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Re:Finally, a Makefile formatter (50 years overdue) by johnisgood on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @06:10AM (#44375518)
BTW: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44359539
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