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Klen · 10-17-2014, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by woj

key is using the right language for the job, no one is ever going to do any serious computation with php, so the fact that php performs poorly on these specific tests is meaningless...

this is a more comprehensive comparison of languages:
Computer Language Benchmarks Game

on some tests, like this one, php actually gets quite respectable results:
k-nucleotide benchmark | ComputerhaLanguagehaBenchmarkshaGame

Yes PHP is notorious to be slow which is why some of developers "escaped" to ruby,and that is why facebook build their fork of PHP.But php authors said how they will with PHP 7 make serious update which will resolve speed problem once for all.