"Duane R. Larkin" wrote:
>
>   I am interested in feedback on performance differences between CI scripts
> and Perl scripts.  Is there a speed advantage, one over the other?  I'm new
> to CI programming and am also wondering about it's limitations (if any)
> when compared to Perl.  Can anyone speak to that?  My initial general
> scripting requirements are around job management and simple file I/O.  As
> an example I am trying to automate logging of information created in a
> STDLIST by many of the jobs we run.  From an ease of use and performance
> standpoint, which may be better, CI/UDC or Perl?

"It depends."  ;-)

If your script needs to execute zillions of MPE commands, then a CI script will
be faster than Perl, unless you use Ken Hirsch's HPCICOMMAND Perl module.

If you need to do complicated pattern matching and string manipulation, Perl
will kick butt on the CI.  If you will be scanning $STDLIST spoolfiles, I
suspect you'll want to use Perl for it's pattern matching abilities.

Since you have a Unix background, you will probably be productive faster using
Perl.  And of course you can tap into the glory that is CPAN for zillions of
add-on Perl modules.
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