hamsBlog » Programming language http://blog.hamsworld.net by Jure Ham Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:53:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Fastest and the Slowest Programming Language http://blog.hamsworld.net/2009/12/04/the-fastest-and-the-slowest-programming-language/ http://blog.hamsworld.net/2009/12/04/the-fastest-and-the-slowest-programming-language/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:31:17 +0000 hamax http://blog.hamsworld.net/?p=258 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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