Re: For text processing, which is more powerful, emacs or perl?

[Jean Louis]

* Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2020-12-20 04:43]:
> werner@X10DAi:~$ time python3 --version >/dev/null
> 
> real    0m0.086s
> user    0m0.065s
> sys    0m0.027s
> werner@X10DAi:~$ time perl --version >/dev/null
> 
> real    0m0.003s
> user    0m0.003s
> sys    0m0.000s

You did not measure the code, rather startup time to show the version.