Interpreter Benchmarking

Euphoria is faster and sometimes much faster than other interpreters.

Some benchmark results comparing Euphoria against some common interpreters. Results are in seconds which includes the startup time for each interpreter; lowest time is best.

Benchmark	Argument	Euphoria Interpreter	Euphoria Compiler	Python	Perl
ackermann	10	24.9	0.97	73.9	92.4
binary trees	18	301	52.0	536	636
fannkuch	10	18.6	3.06	65.0	62.3
n-body	500000	37.3	15.4	57.5	68.7
		_{eui version 4.04}	_{euc version 4.04}	_{python 2.6.5}	_{perl 5.10.1}