The Computer Language Benchmarks Game

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These x86 Ubuntu one-core measurements were made with affinity set on a quad-core 2.4Ghz Intel® Q6600® machine with 4GB of RAM and 250GB SATA II disk drive. Ubuntu™ 12.04 Linux Kernel 3.2.0-35-generic
Elapsed time measurements less than 120s are the fastest of 6 measurements.
Elapsed time measurements more than 120s are the sole measurement.
Each program was run as a child-process of a Python script using Popen. For elapsed time, the time was taken before forking the child-process and after the child-process exits, using time.time()