performance of different scripting languages: shell v. perl v. python v. ruby

http://opennomad.com/content/performance-different-scripting-languages-shell-v-perl-v-python-v-ruby

 

Results

To be honest, I was surprised at the results. I ran the tests 3 times and took averages. The data can be viewed at Google Docs Performance of Scripting Languages with the raw results in their owns sheets. Here is the summary table, but the google doc looks crisper.

.		Shell	Perl	Python	Ruby
.	sort	1.89	0.73	0.72	1.48
.	sort 10x	16.67	8.69	5.89	24.15
.	sort 20x	37.37	33.09	17.34	602.41
.	sort 50x	112.68	601.11	70.76	601.80
.	md5	38.60	1.63	2.35	0.38
.	text replace	2.90	1.50	5.11	2.98
.	http get	9.81	5.56	1.45	2.36
.	Sum	219.92	652.31	103.61	1,235.55
.	Average	31.42	93.19	14.80	176.51