pythonvsphp

PDF merging benchmark for Python and PHP

• I used time command for benchmarking
• Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit, Intel® Core™ i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz × 4 , 8GB RAM

time php mymerger.php
time python basic_merging.py

Results

Language	User	System	Total
Python 2.7	0.19s	0.01s	0.198s
Python 3	0.24s	0.01s	0.257s
php5	0.05s	0.00s	0.055s

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