Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly
by cutler on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:37PM
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On the other hand PHP has a PCRE jit option which manages to beat even Perl's regex implementation.
Yes but you can use that jit also with perl5.
https://metacpan.org/pod/re::engine::PCRE2
It has even less backcompat problems than the native regex.
Perl5 won the dec2bin benchmark.
The other thing I learned was that PHP's binary/decimal functions are two orders of magnitude slower, despite its core interpreter performance being best-in-class.