blasdel > but on the meteor contest (which is the alioth people's favorite) Which of the "alioth people" told you the meteor contest was their favourite? blas

blasdel > but on the meteor contest (which is the alioth people's favorite) Which of the "alioth people" told you the meteor contest was their favourite? blasdel > you linked to rankings (one where PHP's wart is omitted), not results If it's their favourite then why do you think "the alioth people" don't include meteor contest in their ranking? Yes, compare language implementations directly one-against-another for all the benchmarks. As thomasmallen is so keen on the old Pentium 4 machine, compare PHP with Ruby Core 1.9.0 ;-) http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=php&lang2=yarv http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all... (Disclaimer - Obviously the benchmarks game webpages are written in PHP)