Re: Nested loop yitzle wrote:
> There's been mentions of efficiency.
> I'm under the impression that for the uses Perl is put to, the
> efficiency of a loop is sorta irrelevent. If you are doing
> harddrive/network access, the performance gain of one loop over the
> other is more of less invisible.
> Come to think of it, the time for interpretting got to overshadow the
> performance gain...
> For running mathematical stuff, wouldn't you use C?

Probably FORTRAN.   :-)



John
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