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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.



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

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


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

Startup times matter a great deal.




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