TL;DR: see the figure below. Note that nqueen and matmul are implemented in all languages but sudoku and bedcov are only implemented in some. Table of Contents Introduction Results Overall impressions Caveats Startup time Elapsed time vs CPU time Subtle optimizations Optimizing inner loops Controlling memory layout Discussions Appendix: Timing on Apple M1 Macbook Pro Introduction Programming Language Benchmark v2 (plb2) evaluates the performance of 20 programming languages on four CPU-intensive ...