Edited sentence: Benchmarks that objectively compare the performance of languages are always difficult to devise, but Perl is particularly onerous in this respect, because the most efficient approach to solving a problem usually has a distinct Perl flavour that is hard to translate to other languages with any fidelity.The "there is more than one way to do it" philosophy adds another hurdle.Therefore, the fact that benchmarks almost always favor the languages which the benchmark authors understand best must lead to a strong skepticism of such measurements