I agree with your general point, but I believe you need to choose components that have a chance of being fast if you ever want the overall system to be fast.
I didn't notice .Net in the benchmarks -- no .Net languages are listed but .Net is there as a framework. It's still x20 faster than Ruby.
I didn't notice .Net in the benchmarks -- no .Net languages are listed but .Net is there as a framework. It's still x20 faster than Ruby.