Real-world benchmarks

haskell.sh

$ time ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.6.3

real  0m0.074s
user	0m0.006s
sys	0m0.012s

nodejs.sh

$ time node --version
v0.10.15

real  0m0.013s
user	0m0.009s
sys	0m0.003s

ruby.sh

$ time ruby --version
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin11.4.2]

real  0m0.058s
user	0m0.029s
sys	0m0.026s

$ time perl -v

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
(with 56 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2011, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

real 0m0.004s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.000s

time mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 3.0.7 (tarball Fri May 24 19:08:44 UTC 2013)
Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: amd64
Disabled: none
Misc: softdebug
LLVM: supported, not enabled.
GC: Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)

real 0m0.002s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

time python -v
real 0m0.000000002s
user 0m0.000000000s
sys 0m0.0000000000s

take that suckers

@droope, would've been better if you had same number of zeros everywhere.

@droope Also, that's not actually the command to print python's version (try -V).

Wow, hy is awfully slow. I guess I'll have to stop using it.

% time hy --version
hy 0.9.10
hy --version  0.05s user 0.02s system 97% cpu 0.075 total

WHAT??!?!?! My code, and this benchmark are a standard industry best practice, highly recommended by all the professionals in this industry.

I have no clue what you two are on about;

time php -v
PHP 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.3 (cli) (built: Sep  4 2013 19:32:25)
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies
php -v  0.02s user 0.01s system 87% cpu 0.032 total

time php --version
PHP 5.4.15-1~quantal+1 (cli) (built: May 12 2013 22:24:11) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.2.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2012, by Derick Rethans
php --version  0,01s user 0,02s system 97% cpu 0,029 total

sykop5am@hppro ~ % time gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.7.2/gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.7.2-r1/work/gcc-4.7.2/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.7.2 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/include/g++-v4 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --without-cloog --without-ppl --disable-lto --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --enable-obsolete --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --enable-multilib --with-multilib-list=m32,m64 --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.2/python --enable-checking=release --disable-libgcj --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-targets=all --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.7.2-r1 p1.6, pie-0.5.5'
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.7.2 (Gentoo 4.7.2-r1 p1.6, pie-0.5.5)
gcc -v 0.00s user 0.00s system 13% cpu 0.015 total