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Old 10-17-2014, 08:11 AM  
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Originally Posted by clickhappy View Post
Very interesting, this guy wrote a program and ran it in 7 different languages to test the speed.
the results are here https://github.com/unixpickle/Benchmarks
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhOSVbxzN9U
key is using the right language for the job, no one is ever going to do any serious computation with php, so the fact that php performs poorly on these specific tests is meaningless...

this is a more comprehensive comparison of languages:
Computer Language Benchmarks Game

on some tests, like this one, php actually gets quite respectable results:
k-nucleotide benchmark | Computer*Language*Benchmarks*Game
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