Ben's

http://opennomad.com/content/performance-different-scripting-languages-shell-v-perl-v-python-v-ruby Results To be honest, I was surprised at the results. I ran the tests 3 times and took averages. The data can be viewed at Google Docs Performance of Scripting Languages with the raw results in their owns sheets. Here is the summary table, but the google doc looks crisper. . Shell Perl Python Ruby..

#!/usr/bin/python # # 08/07/20 system team nhko # from httplib import HTTP import urllib import httplib def error(msg) : params = urllib.urlencode({'pass': 'xxxx', 'mesg': '10.10.10.2'':'+msg}) headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"} conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("sms.nhko.com:80") conn.request("POST", "/cgi-bin/sms.pl", params, headers) print conn..