Time. Time is life. It is the most important measure of everything.
This is why performance benchmarking is a critical part of technology assessment. How fast does it run to get the job done.
But there is more to it. Getting the job done means building a solution as well as running it. Design-time and run-time. Benchmarks need to measure both those aspects.
Indeed if design-time performance did not matter everyone should comfortable developing logic in assembler of binary. Usability is important.
