Here you go, on a BeagleBoneBlack: $ time python3 -c "print('hello')" hello real 0m0.223s user 0m0.148s sys 0m0.047s and, for t

Here you go, on a BeagleBoneBlack: $ time python3 -c "print('hello')" hello real 0m0.223s user 0m0.148s sys 0m0.047s and, for the record: $ python3 bench.py python-speed v1.3 using python v3.7.3 string/mem: 46673.98 ms pi calc/math: 98650.32 ms regex: 38489.41 ms fibonnaci/stack: 30723.3 ms multiprocess: 75500.34 ms total: 290037.35 ms (lower is better) Might get a little better with some tweaking of performance governors / idle states enabled but, yeah...