Testing speed of various languages

How to run this:

• first generate BIGDATA2 file ./generate-BIGDATA2.sh
• install this if you want to run all tests brew install php@5.6 python@3.6
• run benchmark: ./run.sh

Using MacBook 15" 2015. 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM

Python 2 result=327281433600 <- Very bad...

real 1m48.775s user 0m54.106s sys 0m54.386s

AWK result=327281433600

real 0m8.611s user 0m8.568s sys 0m0.034s

Python 3 result=327281433600

real 0m5.191s user 0m5.107s sys 0m0.056s

Python 3 No Unicode result=327281433600

real 0m3.897s user 0m3.857s sys 0m0.034s

PHP 5.6 result=327281433600

real 0m14.869s user 0m13.412s sys 0m1.426s

PHP 7.0 result=327281433600 <- Second place

real 0m2.198s user 0m1.557s sys 0m0.617s

Go result=327281433600 <- Winner!

real 0m1.301s user 0m1.294s sys 0m0.034s

C result=327281433600.000000

real 0m2.036s user 0m2.016s sys 0m0.018s

Using MacBook 12" 2015

Python 2 result=330616563309

real 0m15.309s user 0m15.132s sys 0m0.103s

AWK result=330616563309

real 0m13.465s user 0m13.282s sys 0m0.112s

Python 3 result=330616563309

real 0m8.116s user 0m7.975s sys 0m0.091s

Python 3 No Unicode result=330616563309

real 0m6.244s user 0m6.136s sys 0m0.078s

PHP 5.6 result=330616563309

real 0m52.751s user 0m31.319s sys 0m15.405s

PHP 7.0 result=330616563309

real 0m4.125s user 0m2.898s sys 0m1.095s

Go result=330616563309

real 0m2.460s user 0m2.369s sys 0m0.068s

C result=330616563309.000000

real 0m3.881s user 0m3.752s sys 0m0.075s