Re: Harnessing Perl Scripts within a Project
Re: Harnessing Perl Scripts within a Project
- Subject: Re: Harnessing Perl Scripts within a Project
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:19:17 -0800
On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Andres Kievsky <email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm curious - isn't the fact that none of those languages support true multithreading a rather big hindrance when programming a Cocoa Application? How would you put together a responsive application without it?
Threading isn’t mandatory. Most of the slow stuff like network I/O can be done with asynchronous APIs. (On the other hand, my app development has been done on Mac OS, not iOS, and I know iOS devices have a lot fewer CPU cycles to throw around…)
Anyway, if responsiveness is a concern, you probably don’t want to be coding in any interpreted language! Back in the day (1998-2000) my team and I were struggling to get Java to perform well compared to native apps, and even back then Java had considerably better performance than purely interpreted ‘scripting’ languages.
—Jens
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