Taking that code and coupling the Zend Optimizer, PHP and Perl were approximately the same speed (Perl was 8% faster, but that probably varies across platforms).
W/o the optimizer PHP was 2 times slower, but again, that's only because this is not a very real-world piece of code, at least for our space (scripting languages). Zeev On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, August Zajonc wrote: > Sure, > > These are not my tests but Doug's. He compiled default so --debug > and --inline-optimization not kicking in. Startup cost also counted, but he > tried to run long enough to amortize that. > > n was 16. > > perl code was something like this. > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > # $Id: nestedloop.perl,v 1.2 2000/12/30 21:42:57 doug Exp $ > # http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ > > use strict; > > my $n = ($ARGV[0] > 0) ? $ARGV[0] : 1; > my $x = 0; > my $a = $n; > while ($a--) { > my $b = $n; > while ($b--) { > my $c = $n; > while ($c--) { > my $d = $n; > while ($d--) { > my $e = $n; > while ($e--) { > my $f = $n; > while ($f--) { > $x++; > } > } > } > } > } > } > print "$x\n"; > > -- Zeev Suraski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.zend.com/ -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
