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in reply to Re^2: Cygwin Perl vs. ActivePerl
in thread Cygwin Perl vs. ActivePerl

In compiler technology nowadays, it's really to do with how clever you can arrange your code to take advantage of the CPU caching, super scalar pipelining, etc. I actually believe Intel will have a 4% speed boost because of 'undocumented features'. :-D