Hi: Benchmarking computer language essentially amounts to implementing the same set of problems in two or more different languages and then measuring the - performance - memory consumption - concurrency costs - runtime overhead etc.
The performance may sometimes also be affected by platform on which the implementation is run. An interesting Benchmarking game is available at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ Choose the language to get started and then select another language to compare with. Take a look at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ thanks Saifi.
