Re: Speed of different procedural language

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:10:21AM -0000, Ben Trewern wrote:
> I know I should be writing these in C but that's a bit beyond me.  I was
> going to try PL/Python or PL/Perl or even PL/Ruby.  Has anyone any idea
> which language is fastest, or is the data access going to swamp the overhead
> of small functions?

I'm not sure if it's what you ask for, but there _is_ a clear difference
between the procedural languages -- I've had a 10x speed increase from
rewriting PL/PgSQL stuff into PL/Perl, for instance. I'm not sure which ones
would be faster, though -- I believe Ruby is slower than Perl or Python
generally, but I don't know how it all works out in a PL/* setting.

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