[Aurornis]

The file I/O is probably irrelevant, but the startup time is not.

The differences among the really fast languages are probably in different startup times if I had to guess.

[igouy]

What if we try to measure rather than guess :-)

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[pizlonator]

> differences among the really fast languages are probably in different startup times

Startup times matter a great deal.