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Perl is absolutely not faster than Python, not even for regexes.





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.

Perl is always faster than python. Python is just absurdly bad in performance



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