Re: Faster depend written in Perl

Ian Burrell (iburrell@leland.stanford.edu)
Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:04:28 -0700 (PDT)

>
> Doesn't perl do all math as floating point too though?
>

This used to be true for older versions of Perl, but new versions do
integer math on integers. Also, the speed up is due to better I/O and
regexp pattern matching in Perl.

- Ian

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