govsphp.md

govsphp

Simple demonstration to compare go and php language execution time by using for loop with one billion times loop.

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz

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go program result 1.428860546s

with go compiler: go version go1.22.0 linux/amd64

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

func main() {
	var n int = 0
	now := time.Now()
	defer func() {
		fmt.Println(n)
		fmt.Println(time.Now().Sub(now))
	}()

	for i := 0; i < 1000000000; i++ {
		n += 1
	}
}

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php program result 6.4896709918976 Secs

with PHP 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14 (cli) (built: Aug 18 2023 11:41:11) (NTS)

<?php

$timeStart = microtime(true);

$n = 0;
for ($i = 1; $i <= 1000000000; $i++) {
    $n += 1;
}

$timeEnd = microtime(true);

echo $n . "\n";
echo ($timeEnd - $timeStart) . " Secs\n";