I can cherry pick: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...
too: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...
My favourite chart is still this one though: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...
If that doesn't show how optimized Erlang is for certain use cases, nothing does.
It's also worth noting that where PHP does well is in direct calls to C libraries; compare the C version and PHP version of pidigits; they are almost identical. A few languages do as well with their native numerical tower, which is very interesting.
Specifically?
(I am pretty sure GHC uses GMP for its core math routines, though.)
Exactly, so I don't understand in what sense we could say GHC is an example of languages that "do as well with their native numerical tower"?
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...
And that PHP :: SBCL webpage has a link to "Overall Performance: PHP is rarely the bottleneck (HTML slides)" ;-)