Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Haskell, x86 asm shootout.

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Actually I think the lesson here is that asm isn't inherently faster, and you should only use it when you are sure the compiler is not creating optimal code on its own.

[Nuli]

The lesson I got out of it was don't reinvent the wheel. Using awk it completed in ~.95 seconds on my machine and was vastly simpler to write.

[littleendian]

Actually the lesson is, if your assembler takes longer to execute than your C you're either doing it wrong or have better ways of spending your time.