Interestingly, Java has been improving lately in this regard, thanks to cloud and container use-cases. There was a big regression with Java 9, but since then it

Interestingly, Java has been improving lately in this regard, thanks to cloud and container use-cases. There was a big regression with Java 9, but since then it's been getting better with each release. Numbers for "hello world" on my machine: Java 7: 43 ms Java 8: 29 ms Java 11: 34 ms Java 18: 22 ms Python 2.7: 6 ms Python 3.10: 12 ms Perl 5: 1 ms