Hey Benny!

Oct 09 19:50 04, Benny Pedersen wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 BP> perl can't handle it yes, it needs c coded wrappers mostly for pkt 
 BP> parsing

How about the {un,}pack functions?

 BP> if yes why not go for php then ? :-)

Perl is faster, almost twice as fast the last time I checked.  I posted the
results of packing 100,000 shorts by both perl and php in this echo a
little while ago.  The situation may have changed lately.  I'll try it
again in the near future.

Life is good,
Maurice

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