"Perl is slow."
I've heard this for years, well since I started. You probably have too. And honestly? For a long time, I didn't have a great rebuttal. Sure, Perl's fast enough for most things, it's well known for text processing, glueing code and quick scripts. But when it came to object heavy code, the critics have a point.
Over the past year, I’ve been self-studying XS and have now decided to share my learning journey through a series of blog posts. This tenth post introduces you to what I call closures in XS.
Over the past year, I’ve been self-studying XS and have now decided to share my learning journey through a series of blog posts. This ninth post introduces you to C data types and how to expose them in perl.
Over the past year, I’ve been self-studying XS and have now decided to share my learning journey through a series of blog posts. This eighth post introduces you to Perl regular expressions in XS.
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