Not only are these differences not the high-order bit of programmer time, for most applications they're probably the lowest-order bit:
> So what do these numbers tell us? Basically, to process exactly the same code, you can either spend ~8 seconds, 24 seconds or 78 seconds. Your choice.
My choice is I don't care in the least about these differences, and would gladly take the 78 seconds if that slow language had slightly better syntax or was slightly more expressive.
If I were working on a google scale code base and the difference was an hour vs 2 days, I might care then. But for the vast majority of programmers and applications, that's not relevant.
> So what do these numbers tell us? Basically, to process exactly the same code, you can either spend ~8 seconds, 24 seconds or 78 seconds. Your choice.
My choice is I don't care in the least about these differences, and would gladly take the 78 seconds if that slow language had slightly better syntax or was slightly more expressive.
If I were working on a google scale code base and the difference was an hour vs 2 days, I might care then. But for the vast majority of programmers and applications, that's not relevant.