#!/usr/bin/ruby 10000000.times { print "stuff1"," ","stuff2","\n" } Running... 23.56user 1.60system 0:25.50elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+457minor)pagefaults 0swaps #!/usr/bin/python for i in range(1,10000000): print "stuff1","stuff2" Running... 13.38user 0.20system 0:13.60elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+39997minor)pagefaults 0swaps #!/usr/bin/python for i in xrange(1,10000000): print "stuff1","stuff2" Running... 12.78user 0.00system 0:12.81elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+700minor)pagefaults 0swaps #!/usr/bin/php5 -q Running... 9.90user 2.00system 0:11.93elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+1282minor)pagefaults 0swaps #include #define RUNS 10000000UL int main() { unsigned long i; for (i=0;i #define RUNS 10000000UL int main (void) { unsigned long i; for (i=0;i #define RUNS 10000000UL int main (void) { unsigned long i; for (i=0;i