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
• AWK
• JS
• Ruby
• Clojure
• TCL

Usage

Build:

make

Clean:

make clean

Test:

make test

Also, Docker and Docker Compose are supported (so just run docker-compose up).

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.

License

This software is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license (see the LICENSE.txt file).