Very interesting. If I understand correctly, this article is mainly focused on bioinformatics and performance of high level languages in that area.

I wonder why BioPerl (https://bioperl.org/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioPerl) has not been included, it would have been interesting. Perl is considered surprisingly fast for certain classes of tasks (for an interpreted language of course, no point in comparing to C for example).

My info could be outdated of course.