Agreed. It’s a common desire to boil benchmarks down to a single number. Some of those languages, however, are far more complex then the others. And as any com

Agreed. It’s a common desire to boil benchmarks down to a single number. Some of those languages, however, are far more complex then the others. And as any complex tool, it requires certain methodology. If you are to use heavy machinery like C++, forget iostreams and character-level processing on your hot paths.