If you want to look at the JIT overhead, for the benchmark stone and Richards, multiply the first number by ten and subtract the second number. And you can do it in your head, CPython is the fastest if you only going to launch the interpreter and run the program once.<p>The sorting benchmark is more interesting. One could estimate where the breakeven point is, if considering the sorting scaling to be exactly n*log(n). Though the timings could be considerably different once everything fits in L2 or L1 cache.
Today a big contender for a VM to rule them all is WebAssembly, even though the primary motivation at the start was a web language, the design of the intermediate language (.wasm) is explendid, it hits the sweet spot of a LISP language with static types and low level coding