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Perl versus PHP fastest programs

Always look at the source code.

These are only the fastest programs. Look at the other programs. They may seem more-like a fair comparison to you.

reverse-complement
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 10.60 1,494,988 287 10.72 37% 0% 0% 63%
PHP 14.19 529,416 438 22.75 35% 54% 49% 21%
spectral-norm
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 39.52 12,216 555 154.07 97% 98% 97% 98%
PHP 33.24 24,100 1152 128.43 95% 98% 98% 95%
k-nucleotide
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 61.27 1,069,048 476 191.99 82% 93% 64% 74%
PHP 41.32 169,460 1079 134.99 88% 75% 84% 79%
fasta
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 90.31 55,080 871 90.89 100% 0% 0% 0%
PHP 53.24 7,888 1062 56.38 88% 3% 2% 12%
pidigits
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 3.61 8,548 261 3.69 0% 1% 1% 100%
PHP 2.11 9,064 399 2.14 100% 1% 0% 0%
n-body
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 729.64 6,528 1429 743.07 29% 47% 2% 24%
PHP 329.52 7,716 1082 348.91 21% 4% 43% 37%
binary-trees
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 129.89 2,519,152 761 457.58 96% 84% 88% 84%
PHP 51.13 1,584,360 751 187.68 90% 92% 95% 90%
fannkuch-redux
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 569.32 12,088 570 2,231.43 97% 100% 97% 98%
PHP 219.15 21,724 1160 870.05 99% 99% 99% 100%
regex-redux
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 16.03 156,916 820 46.37 79% 77% 87% 46%
PHP 2.88 155,276 816 5.63 44% 79% 33% 38%
mandelbrot
source secs mem gz busy cpu load
Perl 721.25 44,280 586 2,884.18 100% 100% 100% 100%
PHP 105.40 122,084 875 418.58 99% 99% 100% 99%
Perl

This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0)
built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

PHP

PHP 7.4.5 (cli) (built: May 11 2020 13:25:48) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies