I don't care about "real world workloads" when measure a programming language. There network latency or disk/database i/o would dominate in most cases.

I'm interested in the raw language speed/memory use in its native form, which is a good indicator of what you can do with it (e.g. "can you do number crunching? is it good for 3d rendering? can it tackle writing a fast compiler in it?" etc).