PHP versus Python 3 fastest programs

Always look at the source code. These are only the fastest programs.

If they are manually vectorized SIMD, does the host language matter? You might not be interested in the most optimised programs.

Look at "mandelbrot" or "spectral-norm" or other measurement tables. Look at the other programs. Choose which programs you want to compare.

spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	7.03	37,884	1152	27.90	99% 99% 99% 99%
Python 3	112.97	48,792	407	450.01	100% 100% 100% 100%
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	65.72	12,940	1082	66.13	0% 100% 0% 0%
Python 3	541.34	7,780	1196	544.06	0% 100% 0% 0%
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	23.26	142,252	875	92.82	100% 100% 100% 100%
Python 3	177.35	47,780	688	703.41	99% 99% 99% 99%
fannkuch-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	57.71	46,568	1162	228.98	100% 99% 99% 99%
Python 3	341.45	45,548	950	1,347.78	100% 99% 96% 99%
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	17.82	1,589,760	760	63.91	89% 89% 96% 84%
Python 3	44.70	273,136	660	161.37	83% 90% 91% 97%
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	19.76	255,072	1079	67.84	96% 76% 96% 76%
Python 3	46.31	246,576	1967	175.36	94% 95% 96% 94%
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	20.77	13,076	1062	21.01	1% 0% 0% 100%
Python 3	36.90	836,484	1947	68.94	43% 10% 74% 60%
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	0.92	14,236	399	0.93	0% 100% 1% 0%
Python 3	1.16	11,700	567	1.19	1% 100% 1% 1%
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	6.96	536,328	446	11.04	48% 6% 32% 73%
Python 3	6.62	1,005,400	814	10.00	3% 48% 72% 28%
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
PHP	1.83	189,236	816	3.65	36% 35% 88% 41%
Python 3	1.34	111,492	1403	2.62	36% 41% 32% 87%
PHP	PHP 8.1.1 (cli) (built: Jan 6 2022 19:24:43) (NTS) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v4.1.1, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
Python 3	Python 3.10.1