Dispelling myths on HN

gistfile1.txt

~$ time luajit -e 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.090s
user	0m0.031s
sys	0m0.053s
~$ time luajit -e 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.082s
user	0m0.032s
sys	0m0.048s
~$ time luajit -e 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.077s
user	0m0.032s
sys	0m0.044s
~$ time luajit -e 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.076s
user	0m0.031s
sys	0m0.042s
~$ time luajit -e 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.077s
user	0m0.031s
sys	0m0.045s
~$ time python -c 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.111s
user	0m0.023s
sys	0m0.041s
~$ time python -c 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.046s
user	0m0.020s
sys	0m0.022s
~$ time python -c 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.047s
user	0m0.020s
sys	0m0.021s
~$ 
~$ time python -c 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.051s
user	0m0.020s
sys	0m0.023s
~$ time python -c 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.046s
user	0m0.020s
sys	0m0.021s
~$ time python -c 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.049s
user	0m0.021s
sys	0m0.023s
~$ time node -e 'console.log(1)'
1

real	0m0.121s
user	0m0.060s
sys	0m0.029s
~$ time node -e 'console.log(1)'
1

real	0m0.079s
user	0m0.059s
sys	0m0.017s
~$ time node -e 'console.log(1)'
1

real	0m0.083s
user	0m0.059s
sys	0m0.016s
~$ time node -e 'console.log(1)'
1

real	0m0.079s
user	0m0.059s
sys	0m0.017s
~$ time node -e 'console.log(1)'
1

real	0m0.080s
user	0m0.061s
sys	0m0.016s
~$ time node -e 'console.log(1)'
1

real	0m0.079s
user	0m0.060s
sys	0m0.016s
~$ time node -e 'console.log(1)'
1

real	0m0.079s
user	0m0.060s
sys	0m0.017s
~$ time node -e 'console.log(1)'
1

real	0m0.076s
user	0m0.057s
sys	0m0.016s

cat "fn main() { println!("1"); }" > main.rs
cargo build --release
time ./hello
1

real 0m0.007s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.003s