drob518 parent
Startup time doesn’t seem to be factored in correctly, so any language that uses a bytecode (e.g. Java) or is compiling from source (e.g. Ruby, Python, etc.) will look poor on this. If the kids of applications that you write are ones that exit after a fraction of a second, then sure, this will tell you something. But if you’re writing server apps that run for days/weeks/months, then this is useless.
Python took 86 seconds, if I'm reading it correctly. I can see your point holding for a language like Java, but most of Python's time spent cannot have been startup time, but actual execution time.
Yea, for Python it’s also just slow (not the language, but CPython; you can do much better with PyPy).