Is Laravel 'faster' than Ruby on Rails?

I remember reading somewhere that PHP 7 outperforms Ruby and Python 3 in some 'speed tests' and Mandelbrot fractal generation. I really love the optimizations they did on PHP 7 and Rasmus briefly talked about even more optimizations coming to 7.3. They will reduce the number of instructions being performed by scanning non-used code first in MUCH MUCH more places than they already do. Basically, if you initialize a variable that's never used, or if you loop N times to do basically no logic relevant to the rest of the scope, no instruction will be executed. Basically, PHP 7 is twice as fast as 5.6. Amazing!

I don't have any real benchmarking evidences, just wanted to be in a conversation! :D

laravel is not only faster ... also with an stable performance.

this is the most serious benchmark i found out there

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=ph&test=fortune

please do not confuse yourself. you will see some ruby at the top of laravel .... but its because they are using other frames in ruby.

also .... php is over ruby in the general view.

RoR does not even appear in the ranking due to the low performance.

@jcmargentina Can you elaborate on 'other frames'? I dont get it. An example would be perfect!

Also worth noting is that the tests from benchmark you sent seem to run on PHP 5.5

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/70a2dac6639cf731dc7c5730333d2ce4116c39b5/frameworks/PHP

@crnkovic Yeah man, I love that PHP is getting better and better. Wonder if i should go back to Laravel.

ok 2 things

1. Comparing RoR vs Laravel, should be a comparison of features, or learning curve , something like that.

Because, every framework is designed with some gold in mind. That is why the metric should not be performance ... at least not the only one.

1. RoR relies on Ruby and Laravel on PHP, Ruby vs PHP sounds like a more reasonable performance comparison... in that case you can find that PHP7 has a better performance than RUBY.

For example, check this out:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/faster/php-yarv.html

At least this is my opinion, hope it helps

@JCMARGENTINA - From that list, I see Rails is on 261 place. On 262 is Unicorn server again with the same Rails framework. Laravel is on 269 place. Where you read that Rails is slower than Laravel ?

Actually Rails is faster than Laravel, but Ruby is slower than PHP, and this doesn't matter, because they are both slow compared to NodeJS, for the example.

Rails and Laravel both are good framework. But when you select a web framework for your project, you need to consider many other things, you need to think about full development life cycle, learning curve, deployment system, ci cd, etc.

Suppose, If I need to develop a multi tenant web application, I will do it with Rails. Because, I can easily do it with constraints in Rails routes. (I see that, Laravel routes also has constraints.)

Sometime I work in PHP frameworks, but I always come back to Rails. I find Rails takes less development time, may be, because Rails is my personal preference.

I find Rails takes less development time, may be, because Rails is my personal preference.

@bappy10 Thanks for bumping a year-old thread just to say you’re faster with something you have more experience with…

This thread just needs nuking. It can't contribute anything of value