#!/usr/bin/ruby 10000000.times { print "stuff1"," ","stuff2","\n" } Running...0:24.57 total, 23.03 user, 1.51 sys, 0 outputs #!/usr/bin/python for i in range(1,10000000): print "stuff1","stuff2" Running...0:13.80 total, 13.53 user, 0.17 sys, 0 outputs #!/usr/bin/python for i in xrange(1,10000000): print "stuff1","stuff2" Running...0:13.43 total, 13.20 user, 0.02 sys, 0 outputs #!/usr/bin/php5 -q Running...0:11.93 total, 9.84 user, 2.08 sys, 0 outputs #include #include #define RUNS 10000000UL int main (void) { unsigned long i; char *s1="stuff1"; char *s2="stuff2"; int l1=strlen(s1); int l2=strlen(s2); for (i=0;i #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