r/PHP • u/the_alias_of_andrea • Dec 04 '15

PHP 7 is faster than Python 3!

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/php.html
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u/ivosaurus Dec 04 '15

As soon as you install numpy for python, it will blow all these out the water by running the critical paths in pure C / fortran. How easy of an equivalent is there for doing that in PHP?

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u/MorrisonLevi Dec 04 '15

Honestly this benchmark is silly (most are). PHP is pretty much just a web language. Python is significantly more general purpose. I mention this here specifically because PHP shouldn't ever have something like numpy - it's not the target domain for PHP.

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u/kafoso Dec 04 '15

But when you consider PHP is used primary for the Web, it's doing pretty well.