Hey, thanks for taking the interest and the time to audit and benchmark. You can get a rough idea of VM startup time by running a simple hello world program.

Hey, thanks for taking the interest and the time to audit and benchmark. You can get a rough idea of VM startup time by running a simple hello world program. fdir is supposed to compete against nodejs alternatives so I am not surprised it comes last. Maybe the next goal should be to optimize it against other cross language platforms. V8 does a lot of optimizations but there is still overhead. A native solution in bash has little to no overhead so no wonder it's the fastest. Anyway, thanks again. This benchmark was insightful (also humbling).