Dart versus Node js fastest programs Always look at the source code. These are only the fastest programs. Look at the other programs. They may seem more-like a fair comparison to you. n-body source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 8.44 124,928 1409 8.55 1% 98% 1% 1% Node js 8.40 34,280 1268 8.84 1% 3% 2% 100% regex-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 4.89 883,948 1041 7.63 89% 22% 19% 25% Node js 4.76 1,152,480 668 5.85 29% 91% 1% 1% binary-trees source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 9.73 694,000 1349 32.52 86% 88% 80% 80% Node js 7.54 1,363,756 744 22.72 74% 73% 73% 82% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 23.32 526,360 1502 64.03 99% 88% 53% 34% Node js 15.73 395,496 1812 43.40 76% 61% 94% 45% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 5.42 159,148 1403 5.54 2% 1% 97% 1% Node js 2.02 67,708 2047 6.24 77% 75% 83% 74% pidigits source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 3.33 149,912 500 3.56 4% 19% 2% 81% Node js 1.16 34,968 599 1.18 99% 2% 0% 1% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 11.92 228,252 911 31.89 97% 37% 36% 98% Node js 4.04 89,736 1122 15.91 98% 99% 98% 98% spectral-norm source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 5.53 123,976 462 5.74 97% 1% 3% 3% Node js 1.84 61,216 999 6.16 83% 84% 85% 83% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 60.13 116,376 495 60.60 0% 1% 100% 0% Node js 11.92 61,268 1313 45.47 95% 94% 96% 96% reverse-complement source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 41.36 6,600,124 555 48.63 61% 20% 9% 27% Node js 2.12 1,522,216 1480 4.32 58% 60% 14% 72% Dart Dart SDK version: 2.10.0 (stable) (Mon Sep 28 09:21:23 2020 +0200) on "linux_x64" Node js v15.0.1 all Dart programs & measurements all Node js programs & measurements