I’m suprised I’ve never come across this before but you can find a pretty extensive list of programming benchmarks for just about any language you can think of over at the Gentoo Linux site.
One graph I’m sure many of you here would like to see is…

The lines in the above graph represent various algorithms.
It should be noted that the benchmarks do not claim any authority or definitive statement of the pro’s and cons of various languages. Check out the site for further comparisons and especially the FAQ.









