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The question is: How much slower?

We could try to count how many times the java circle crosses left-to-right and right-to-left, in the time it takes for the PHP circle to cross left-to-right once.

That's error prone but should be approximately correct after a couple of attempts.

That's work we're forced to do because the "fun visualization" is uninformative.

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That might be your question, but then you can look at the numbers. No chart will be as exact.

If only we could look at the numbers without the uninformative distraction.

I found the animation informative

> I found the animation informative

Java was so fast it glowed orange!

I wonder if the distraction of the animation actually makes people slower at reading the information that is in the text column.

The animation serves its purpose -- it grabs attention.

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