"The performance of a benchmark, even if it is derived from a real program, may not help to predict the performance of similar programs that have different hot spots."
"It may seem paradoxical to use an interpreted language in a high-throughput environment, but we have found that the CPU time is rarely the limiting factor; the expressibility of the language means that most programs are small and spend most of their time in I/O and native run-time code."
"Programming languages are compared against each other as though their designers intended them to be used for the exact same purpose - that just isn't so."