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It's worth noting that it's compiled JavaScript vs. interpreted PHP. With something like HHVM the PHP version would likely be a lot faster.

Compiled JavaScript?

I think he meant JIT compilation.

Looks like you're reading that wrong? Java 8 is listed twice. Java 8, when using the non-standard library version of the program is second only to C++. This is pretty much as expected.

> Have not checked the details of the benchmark yet. <

"Will your toy benchmark program be faster if you write it in a different programming language? It depends how you write it!" ;-)