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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by visarga on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @11:45PM (#8628327)
When I have a one-time computation job that takes an hour to write and two hours to run in Perl, but in C takes 10 hours to write and half an hour to run, then Perl is faster than C.

And these one-time/rare/short jobs are much more frequent than intense, high throughput C code like the nginix web server or the node javascript interpreter.

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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by Igglyboo on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @09:46AM (#8630270)
I see your point, C is definitely the choice for long running jobs or jobs that will be run more than a handful of times, in my experience however I'm writing a lot of one-off scripts that take 30 seconds tops to run so Perl wins out pretty hard over C.
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