Language comparison benchmarks

This is a simple project to compare how fast various languages can run, for example, C vs PHP vs Java.

Requirements

• Node.JS version 0.12+ ('node' should be in PATH)

Optional

• JDK for Java code ('java' and 'javac' should be in PATH)
• GCC (on Mac OS X it comes with XCode App from the App Store)
• Emscripten ('emcc' should be in PATH)
• PHP ('php' should be in PATH)

Running

Run all tests with npm start

Example

It shows something like this on my machine:

Overall summary (from fastest to slowest):
|######################################################### 1000  C
|################################################           836  Java
|##############################                             530  C (non-opt)
|##########################                                 449  Emscripten
|###################                                        333  Emscripten (non-opt)
|##########                                                 174  JavaScript
|##                                                          42  PHP