I don't remember where I saw the inspiration for that, but I greatly extended the idea at some point. After a small cleanup today, I thought it could bring some

I don't remember where I saw the inspiration for that, but I greatly extended the idea at some point. After a small cleanup today, I thought it could bring some good discussion. Here are the raw numbers: Interpreter Syscall count Real time (s; x100) User time Kernel time Max resident memory (KB) bash 5.2.37 156 0.07 0.03 0.04 3596 busybox ash 1.36.1 35 0.02 0.01 0.01 1556 dash 0.5.12 33 0.02 0.01 0.00 1556 ksh PD KSH v5.2.14 88 0.05 0.03 0.02 2376 mksh R59 75 0.04 0.02 0.01 1824 yash 2.57 93 0.05 0.03 0.02 3132 zsh 5.9 274 0.08 0.04 0.03 3792 busybox awk 1.36.1 19 0.02 0.01 0.01 1556 mawk 1.3.4_20240905 58 0.04 0.02 0.01 2444 gawk 5.3.1 103 0.06 0.03 0.03 3568 nawk 20230909 58 0.04 0.02 0.01 2592 python 2.7.18 629 0.45 0.31 0.13 6484 python 3.12.8 389 0.74 0.56 0.18 9636 perl 5.40 175 0.08 0.02 0.06 5088 raku v2024.10 657 15.40 14.49 4.07 148148 tclsh 8.6 140 0.15 0.09 0.06 5164 jimtcl 0.83 109 0.12 0.05 0.06 4052 lua 5.1.5 83 0.06 0.03 0.03 2624 lua 5.3.6 83 0.06 0.03 0.02 2620 lua 5.4.6 83 0.06 0.03 0.02 2644 luajit 2.1.1716656478 76 0.05 0.03 0.02 2680 nodejs v22.4.1 743 1.65 1.14 0.52 40664 chez scheme 10.0.0 350 3.70 2.28 1.42 47568 petite chez scheme 10.0.0 304 2.30 1.42 0.87 31056 gauche 0.9.15 2530 3.43 9.52 1.11 25228 stklos 2.00 280 2.78 2.53 0.25 12368 guile 3.0.10 1512 1.50 2.02 0.67 16148 guile 3.0.10 (compiler) 3718 5.28 7.55 1.50 33728 ecl 23.9.9 3286 3.61 5.09 0.91 12268 sbcl 2.4.11 241 0.24 0.06 0.18 19008 clisp 2.49.92 399 0.48 0.20 0.25 9556 ccl 1.13 293 0.36 0.11 0.21 16456