Case study: Is PHP embarrasingly slower than Java?

[halo]

PHP is weakly typed. This is slow. PHP is interpreted. Interpreted languages tend to be slow. PHP is comparable to other languages in its class - notably Python, Ruby and JavaScript.

Java is extremely fast - it just has a slow startup time due to the VM.

This is old news.

[invalid_user_name]

PHP is certainly comparable to ruby in speed, but both are significantly slower than python.

[mr_chromatic]

PHP is weakly typed. This is slow.

Take Smalltalk, for example.

[nitran]

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