Charts showing the fastest programs by language (Benchmarks Game)

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Benchmark program elapsed seconds compared to the fastest for selected programming language implementations.

As the median line for Rust fastest contributed-program times is outside the IQR box for C#, there's likely to be a difference between those two groups of measurements.

There's likely to be a difference between the OCaml fastest contributed-programs and the Racket and PHP groups :

Benchmark program elapsed seconds compared to the fastest for more programming language implementations.

Programs for binary-trees, pidits and regex-redux have not been included, because the differences in libraries and approach would be hidden in the summary.

Some-of the contributed programs were not re-written for multiprocessing, and may seem better if CPU seconds is the performance metric :

Benchmark program CPU seconds compared to the fastest for selected programming language implementations.

Benchmark program CPU seconds compared to the fastest for more programming language implementations.

After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, 'Lies—damned lies—and statistics,' still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.

Leonard Henry Courtney, 1895