Ruby and Python are terribly slow, I assume PHP is as well

(written by Lawrence Krubner, however indented passages are often quotes)

I like this chart with the speeds of various languages. I wish PHP was on there. One thing that jumps out is how dramatically slow to interpreted script languages are, like Python and Ruby. I assume PHP is down there as well. I recall one test that showed PHP was about 100 times slower than certain similar functions written in C.

I’m a little amazed at how well Java does. I know huge amounts of effort have gone into speeding it up, but wow, it is up there. Clojure looks like it is at the slow end of the compiled languages. The new version of Clojure, 1.3, is suppose to have big speed improvments.

I wish Groovy was on that chart. That is the other language I’m learning and enjoying.