Re^3: Company considers recoding Java app in Perl

[Ovid]

Perl's development speed is faster, but from what I've seen of Java, trying to code 00 Perl in the style most Perl programmers use seems to be quite a bit slower. Compare the speed of Lucene versus Plucene or XProlog versus AI::Prolog. Perl loses hands down. These started as straightforward ports which is part of the problem, but their coding styles don't seem significantly different from what I see many Perl programmers use.

On the other hand, I hear people claim that when Perl is coded in a more idiomatic style, it competes quite handily, but I'd like to see benchmarks against real-world applications rather than samples.

[Anonymous Monk]

FWIW, you could always try the shootout.

[phaylon]

Yes, Plucene may be much slower than Lucene. But that's because the concept was IIRC taken one-to-one. Java has it's language pro's and Perl has it's language pro's. But they're not the same.