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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.