The prime benchmark
Benchmarking programming languages by running program to find the first X prime numbers. The algorithm is naive and should be implemented the same regardless of the language.
Added languages
- C
- Lua
- PHP
- Python3
Usage
Build:
make
Clean:
make clean
Test:
make test
History
When starting to learn Lua, I wrote a simple program to exercise the table data structure. But I had difficulties expressing what I wanted so I first wrote the program in Python. After I had the program written in both languages I did the obvious thing, I timed them. From there on Barak implemented the program in PHP and we implemented it in C. We hope to have many more languages tested.