Re: mysqlclient C API vs. DBI

[Paul DuBois]

At 1:29 AM -0500 9/29/99, bpaduraru wrote:
>C was, is and will be always faster than Perl.
>
>          Bogdan Paduraru
>software engineer - Petar (www.petar.ro)

Faster to execute.  Very likely slower if you're talking about the
time needed to write your program, particularly if you're doing
a lot of string manipulation.


>On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, David wrote:
>
>> How great are the performance differences between using perl/DBI and
>>C/mysqlclient API to perform ongoing select, insert, updates?
>> I would like to use perl/DBI but would use the MySQL C API if it was
>>significantly faster.


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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped