performance comparison of multiple commands excutions

I've got three different programs written in three different languages, and I'm trying to compare their performance in terms of runtime, and memory consumption. What I'm looking for is some command that looks something like: $ SOMETHING (python test.py) $ SOMETHING (ghc -o test test.hs; ./test) $ SOMETHING (gcc -o test test.c; ./test) the reason for this is that I want to have a unified Unix(y) way of looking at the performance results of these programs as oppose to using the profiling tools in these different languages. I'd like also to know what are some other general/essential criteria software professionals measure beside runtime and memory consumption to get some useful stat out of these programs. Thank you