The Fastest and the Slowest Programming Language

What can you do when you are to tired to do anything useful but the level of caffeine in your blood is to high for sleeping?

Watching a TV could be a good choice, but who could resist writing a simple Fibonacci recursion in every programming language that you could think of and measuring the calculation time? I couldn’t.

So here are the results of my very scientific study for Fibonacci 33

1. c
   gcc4.4.1            0.153s
2. go
   8g                       0.189s
3. java
   1.6.0_15           0.267s
4. scala
   2.7.5                  0.324s
5. javascript
   node.js V8        0.346s
6. haskell
   ghc6.10.4         1.675s
7. lisp
   clisp2.44.1       1.888s
8. ruby
   1.8:                     22.614s
   1.91:                   2.757s
9. python
   2.6.4:                 4.401s
   3.1.1:                  5.545s
   cxfreeze4.0.1   5.704s
10. php
    5.2.10                10.341s
11. prolog
    sicstus4.0.2    >10m (didn’t have patience to wait)
    swi5.6.64        Out of local stack

I have some more ideas, but caffeine level is dropping fast.

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