I get the same results: $ touch empty $ chmod +x empty $ time ./empty real 0m0.005s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.00

I get the same results: $ touch empty $ chmod +x empty $ time ./empty real 0m0.005s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.001s $ echo "int main(){return 0;}" > trivial.c $ gcc trivial.c -o trivial $ time ./trivial real 0m0.002s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.002s