speed_example.txt

PHP 7.0.22

$ php bookmarks_checker_prototype.php

 22 links being checked ...

 2 links failed
 20 links verified

 URL parse time: 33.866 secs



Python 2.7.12

$ python bookmarks_checker_py2.py

 22 links being checked ...

 2 links failed
 20 links verified

 URL parse time: 4.71709 secs



PHP 7.0.32, cURL multi

$ php bookmarks_checker.php

 1883 links being checked ...

 See generated logfile bookmarks_checker.log
 URL parse time: 177.642 s

 95 links failed
 1788 links verified



PC used:

 Intel Core i3-4170 3.70 GHz
 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64



Python 2.6.9

$ python bookmarks_checker_py2.py

 1733 links being checked ...

 138 links failed
 1595 links verified

 URL parse time: 191.60327 secs



PC used:

 Intel Xeon CPU E5-2676 2.40 GHz (single core microinstance)
 Amazon Linux AMI release 2017.09