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Re: What is Perl *NOT* good at?by perrin (Chancellor) |
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I wouldn't use it for an application that is all about number-crunching or some other CPU intensive task if performance is a serious concern for the application. There have been examples on perlmonks of people who re-wrote a CPU-bound app in C and got major speed gains as a result. Most of the time, I work on web applications, which are almost never CPU bound. They tend to be I/O bound instead, waiting for a database or something similar, and Perl is very good at that thanks to things like DBI.
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