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Statistics on performance, and comparison to perl?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex deVries)
Wed Jun 21 16:36:29 1995

Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 16:15:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex deVries <adevries@ccs.carleton.ca>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com


The "Java Language Environment - a white paper" claims on page 49 that:
1.  Java is a high performance language, and 
2.  Perl is a low performance language.

Does anyone know how or where these statistics were gathered?  Has anyone 
ever compared perl vs. java?

Just curious...

- Alex


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