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Kernighan, B.W., van Wyk, C.J., "Timing trials, or the trials of timing: Experiments with scripting and user-interface languages", Software-Practice and Experience, 28, 8, July 1998, pp. 819-843. Google
abstract ;;Quote: compared speed of scripting and user-interface languages; enormous variation
abstract+;;Quote: do not take benchmarks at face value
abstract ;;Quote: memory management changes runtimes dramatically but users have little control
abstract ;;Quote: timing services are woefully inadequate, even for computational tasks
820 ;;Quote: can not charge startup costs consistently; depends on dynamically loaded code
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