Re^2: Subroutine overhead in Perl

We just used /usr/bin/time to measure the over all execution time:

$ time java -cp $CLASSPATH:. SudoKu d.txt
$ time ./sudoku.pl <d.txt
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Re^3: Subroutine overhead in Perl by traveler (Parson) on Nov 07, 2007 at 00:03 UTC
It has been a while since I have developed java code, but I think this means the java was already compiled, while the compile time was included in the perl.	[reply]
Re^4: Subroutine overhead in Perl by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 08, 2007 at 07:27 UTC
So? Aside that it's not entirely true — Java run-time engines typically compile Java bytecode into native code at run-time — it is not standard behaviour to run Java programs from their sources. Perl's developers made a choice to parse the source every time, and Java should not be penalized for it.	[reply]
Re^5: Subroutine overhead in Perl by traveler (Parson) on Nov 08, 2007 at 16:54 UTC
I'm sorry: I was probably not clear. The timing for 'java' does not include the 'javac' step, but the perl timing includes the conversion of source to code for the interpreter. I was just suggesting that the 'time' commands were not timing the same things.	[reply]
Re^6: Subroutine overhead in Perl by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 08, 2007 at 17:15 UTC