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Re: Is Perl-DBI Slow?

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From:
Steven Lembark
Date:
July 1, 2006 15:23
Subject:
Re: Is Perl-DBI Slow?
Message ID:
C9E8A75B9ABBA44DFDDE8BEF@[192.168.1.2]


-- LLC <kevin@kevinkempterllc.com>

> I've heard that perl-DBI is slow. Is this true? If so, is it because of
> Perl being an interpreted language?

Perl is compiled, always has been.

DBI is no slower than any other application that has to
talk to a database. This involves disk and/or network I/O,
transaction processing, and any latency involved in using
a time-shared system (just about all of them these days).

I have worked on large datasets with Perl using DBI for
years; in most cases my Perl runs no slower than C that
"real" programmers come up with and frequently runs faster.


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