On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:53 PM, steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
the C programs does the same job with 23 system calls
the perl program takes 160 system calls to just print the line "hello
world"
on screen
The intent of reply was to point out that ...
the C programs does the same job with 23 system calls
*plus* the number of syscalls it would take for gcc to convert text to
executable
code, which is what perl does on your behalf. So, comparing number of
syscalls of the
final executable is not a valid measure of appropriateness of a langauage.
did that make any sense to you ? If it didn't I am sorry, I can't be more
clearer than that.
