zzapper wrote:
I did have a phase of writing all my "scripts" in Perl, but noticed that they were much slower than their equivalent shell scripts.
it depends of a lot of parameters. I use perl when perl makes thinks a lot easier or when there is a lot of content to parse.
if you can read french, i've done my own benches and my conclusion is here : http://khatar.phear.org/shell/bench.html.
regards mc