In any case, while I do find Perl vs. Perl benchmarks most amusing, all a benchmark will tell you is how fast a given platform can run the benchmark!
I disagree. A good benchmark should *compare* 2 or more things, not to see how fast either runs, but to see how they run relative to each other.
In this case Doug compares Perl to lots of other scripting languages - all on the same platform, and where possible, under the same conditions. The results are valid for seeing a lot more than how fast (in raw speed) something is.
Tony