> Both the Perl and Python tests are implementing binary trees in vanilla Perl and Python. Well, that's how you judge a language. You write code in it, as oppo

> Both the Perl and Python tests are implementing binary trees in vanilla Perl and Python. Well, that's how you judge a language. You write code in it, as opposed to writing it in some different language not under consideration. But a much worse problem seems to be the fact that binary-trees is not much of a representative benchmark. It's mostly a benchmark of your memory management. Unless your programs spend 80% of their time managing memory, they'll probably not match the results of binary-trees.