Comment by mg

Reading this, I was interested to see how big the speed difference between Python and PHP is these days, so I tried it like this:

min.py:

    i = 10_000_000
    r = 0

    while i>0:
        i = i-1
        r += min(i,500)

    print(r)

min.php:

    <?php

    $i = 10_000_000;
    $r = 0;

    while ($i>0) {
        $i = $i-1;
        $r += min($i,500);
    }

    print($r);

The results:

    time python3 min.py
    4999874750
    real    0m2.523s

    time php min.php
    4999874750
    real    0m0.333s

Looks like Python is still 8x slower than PHP. Pretty significant.

I ran it with Python 3.11.2 and PHP 8.2.18