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 8.36 34,332 1268 8.37 0% 0% 0% 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 1,152,392 668 5.82 1% 1% 28% 91% binary-trees source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 9.73 694,000 1349 32.52 86% 88% 80% 80% Node js 7.34 1,262,364 744 22.41 75% 84% 72% 75% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 23.32 526,360 1502 64.03 99% 88% 53% 34% Node js 15.48 395,304 1812 42.72 77% 92% 61% 46% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 5.42 159,148 1403 5.54 2% 1% 97% 1% Node js 2.02 67,936 2047 6.27 78% 81% 75% 75% pidigits source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 3.33 149,912 500 3.56 4% 19% 2% 81% Node js 1.16 34,980 599 1.21 1% 1% 99% 3% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 11.92 228,252 911 31.89 97% 37% 36% 98% Node js 4.03 89,888 1122 15.89 99% 98% 98% 99% 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 61,080 999 6.15 84% 81% 86% 83% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Dart 60.13 116,376 495 60.60 0% 1% 100% 0% Node js 11.89 61,216 1313 45.33 96% 94% 96% 94% 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 1,525,056 1481 4.38 48% 27% 70% 62% Dart Dart SDK version: 2.10.0 (stable) (Mon Sep 28 09:21:23 2020 +0200) on "linux_x64" Node js v15.2.1 all Dart programs & measurements all Node js programs & measurements