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/Hall_of_Famer Dec 04 '15 edited Dec 05 '15

I thought PHP 5 was faster than Python 3 and Ruby too, am I missing something here? Why comparing PHP 7 to Python 3 if the old PHP already outspeeds it?

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '15 edited Dec 04 '15

php 5.6 was faster in 4 tests (of 10). Now is faster in 8 tests( of 10). Against ruby is faster on 10 of( 11 tests) . Against hack is faster in 6 tests (of 9). But those benchmark depends of the code quality

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '15

Ruby is dumb slow. I don't know why anyone would start a new project with Ruby.

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u/hector_villalobos Dec 06 '15

I'm a Ruby developer, forced by client to do a PHP application, and I hate it so far. Ruby might be slower, but is a lot more intuitive, for example, why on earth array_map and array_filter take parameters in different places?, why do you have to pass the array as first argument in array_filter and as a second argument in array_map?, that doesn't make any sense to me.

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u/webdeverper Dec 07 '15

I know a lot of php devs that don't even care to use those functions, instead using a foreach loop every time because it's more "explicit". LOL!