Ruby programs versus PHP by benchmark task performance binary-trees source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 47.66 511,724 1083 137.38 66% 90% 70% 63% PHP 65.20 736,468 868 235.57 93% 94% 92% 98% pidigits source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 2.97 306,652 485 2.96 1% 0% 3% 100% PHP 2.12 10,664 399 2.11 100% 0% 1% 1% fasta source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 99.67 106,544 1002 99.65 0% 0% 100% 0% PHP 59.12 9,412 1062 59.11 40% 0% 1% 60% n-body source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 641.41 8,848 1137 641.26 8% 93% 0% 0% PHP 353.84 9,220 1082 353.77 0% 100% 1% 0% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 95.27 381,212 858 342.07 97% 86% 86% 91% PHP 41.39 242,044 1079 133.27 83% 76% 73% 91% reverse-complement source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 32.71 497,404 264 32.69 100% 1% 1% 0% PHP 12.08 516,904 438 7.57 3% 59% 29% 59% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 671.17 30,416 1432 2,613.66 98% 100% 100% 92% PHP 233.57 34,748 1160 929.49 100% 99% 100% 99% spectral-norm source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 119.33 49,312 835 461.61 97% 97% 97% 97% PHP 37.09 20,208 1152 147.78 100% 100% 100% 100% mandelbrot source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 520.83 127,152 925 2,081.07 100% 100% 100% 100% PHP 118.07 137,452 875 471.57 100% 100% 100% 100% regex-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Ruby 25.64 311,964 431 25.63 6% 4% 60% 31% PHP 2.63 270,048 816 2.46 38% 39% 85% 38% Ruby ruby 2.5.0p0 (2017-12-25 revision 61468) [x86_64-linux] PHP PHP 7.2.0 (cli) (built: Nov 30 2017 10:13:12) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies vs JRuby vs PHP vs Python