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		tiffanyh on June 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rewriting the Ruby parser The irony is that PHP has improved massively in perf vs the relative gains of Ruby. https://onlinephp.io/benchmarks https://serpapi.com/blog/benchmarking-ruby-3-1-yjit-ruby-2-7...

vidarh on June 14, 2023 [–]

Apart from measuring very different things, the PHP page compares PHP releases over something like 25 years vs. about 3 years of Ruby releases.

Look at PHP 7.2 onwards, which is a similar timeframe, and the improvements are fairly modest.

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