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TurplePurtle on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby is faster than Python, PHP, and Perl

I imagine Javascript's advantage is because V8 is a JIT compiler. It's unfortunate LuaJIT is not shown since it would probably be around the same level or higher than V8.

pajmullaney on June 6, 2012 [–]

I'd also be interested to see Pypy's experimental JIT compared here (or pypy at all, for that matter).

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