Comments on: Ruby vs PHP performance

By: Exit

Exit — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:13:51 +0000

Anyone run tests with compiled PHP (Zend encoded for instance)?

That also should be considered.

By: retry

retry — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:28:25 +0000

I ran your code on my dev box a deb 5.0.3 (lenny) set up with stock php/ruby packages

$ php -v
PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Apr 26 2009 22:16:23)
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]

$ time ./mergesort.php

real 0m6.303s
user 0m6.200s
sys 0m0.032s
$ time ./mergesort.rb

real 0m8.043s
user 0m7.752s
sys 0m0.292s

But this one simple test is hardly enough to evaluate an entire language. These guys have been benchmarking languages for years:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=php&lang2=ruby&box=1

php is generally faster, although ruby 1.9 does better. Jruby doesn’t impress me at all.

By: 悠閒莊園 » Blog Archive » Scripting language 之選擇

悠閒莊園 » Blog Archive » Scripting language 之選擇 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:50:20 +0000

[...] 今天在這個赖洪礼的 blog – Ruby vs PHP performance中找到點跟據… 然而，我個人對 python，ruby 等都不很熟 ruby 更是沒做過有用的東西出來… 而且我自已在測試 ruby 1.8 時速度也沒很快，跟 php 差不多… Gentoo 也沒 ruby 1.9 所以現階段應不會多嘗試…但仍值得參考… [...]

By: Amit Verma

Amit Verma — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:22:24 +0000

If you write something in a loop in PHP like –
count($a) > 0

And if PHP is trying to evaluate the size of array using count() function than PHP is doing it RIGHT.

PHP needs to do what is “asked to do” and that is perfectly legitimate.

There may be a chance that the size of the array is changing/modifying due to some operation inside the loop? In that case, if PHP is minding it’s business than that’s perfectly alright. If you’re sane enough you’ll write it this way -

$arrSize = count($a);
$arrSize > 0

{Pretty Easy, Hunh??}

Hope I made my point clear??

–
Amit Verma

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:39:15 +0000

@Luis Jose

>>”Hans, well, twitter is written in RoR so…”

Essential parts of Twitter is again written in Scala. (Threading issues).

CodeIgniter and C++API for Threading could have handled Twitter with ease.
(This combo can Kick assss of all language frameworks out there)

Not putting you down. Ruby is a gr8 language but there is still 2 years time to mature in terms of :

1) consistency – I still read people’s problems installing Ruby in Windows XP box.
2) speed – Ruby 1.9 speed is not enuf for me. I need it to be close to Java.
3) libraries – Worst part !!! Still there are no free charting libraries in Ruby (Graphviz suckss assss),
Wx-Ruby and Fx-Ruby are half-baked
Sci/Math modules – where are they hiding? Can I do PCA analysis using Ruby?
ChemRuby – lot of bugs in it.

4)Others – Till Ruby fights java, there is no victory to it. Twitter people put Ruby down and Scala up.
Compatibility – Still I can’t use Ruby 1.9 on RoR
I need a browser plug-in like JRE plug-in for my apps.
Without using JRuby, I need a pure ruby solution for my tasks.
Cheers,
Hans

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:51:30 +0000

Jython*!

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:42:37 +0000

Could you update this and use Python 3.0.1 and JPython??

By: Luis José

Luis José — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:54:18 +0000

Hans, well, twitter is written in RoR so…

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Is Ruby being blamed for nothing? « Pacoup.com — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:06 +0000

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By: Hans

Hans — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:30:50 +0000

“But, if one is making Facebook where there are going to be millions, PHP is dead on arrival.”
and still Facebook is built using PHP…

Personally I like PHP and if you write your coded right then it is fast enough.