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elteto
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Perl is absolutely not faster than Python, not even for regexes.
johnisgood
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It really is though. When I was on the journey to find the fastest interpreted scripting languages, Perl and LuaJIT were one of the fastest ones, meaning Python is slower than both of these languages.
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rurban
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Perl is always faster than python. Python is just absurdly bad in performance
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