[matt4077]

Swift runs at the speed of C. It could be several orders of magnitude faster than ruby or python or node.

[eptcyka]

Not necessarily true https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la... http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

[lassofreak]

But it is true? https://medium.com/@rymcol/benchmarks-for-the-top-server-sid...

Perfect (Swift) kills Node.js - which means it kills other stuff (like Ruby) without question. Python would be hard tho...

[bigdubs]

Would be curious to see `perfect` on the techempower list.

[ralfd]

Interesting. Swift runs circles around Python, except Regex-DNA. Problems with string manipulations?

[smitherfield]

Python and the other scripting languages' regex engine is PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions, a very mature and highly-optimized C library), while Swift's is presumably written in Swift.