Go versus Node js fastest programs Always look at the source code. These are only the fastest programs. Do some of them use manually vectorized SIMD? Look at the other programs. They may seem more-like a fair comparison to you. k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 8.30 160,300 1607 31.96 96% 98% 96% 95% Node js 15.68 397,548 1812 44.40 82% 95% 44% 62% reverse-complement source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 1.42 1,344,600 1338 2.66 57% 36% 71% 24% Node js 2.17 1,535,512 1480 4.64 62% 53% 56% 42% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 7.59 2,064 969 30.31 100% 100% 100% 100% Node js 11.60 64,024 1313 45.89 99% 99% 99% 99% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 1.28 11,276 1404 3.78 65% 86% 81% 65% Node js 1.89 71,820 2047 6.13 79% 79% 81% 85% n-body source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 6.38 1,896 1200 6.43 0% 100% 1% 0% Node js 8.63 36,136 1268 8.67 0% 0% 100% 0% pidigits source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 1.00 8,952 683 1.04 0% 3% 99% 2% Node js 1.29 37,068 599 1.36 1% 100% 2% 2% regex-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 3.94 323,252 810 6.14 74% 30% 19% 33% Node js 4.64 1,163,148 668 5.83 3% 14% 30% 79% spectral-norm source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 1.44 2,356 548 5.71 99% 99% 99% 99% Node js 1.64 67,584 999 6.12 92% 92% 93% 95% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 3.75 34,832 894 14.92 100% 99% 99% 100% Node js 4.03 95,448 1122 15.91 99% 98% 99% 100% binary-trees source secs mem gz busy cpu load Go 12.80 385,036 1017 43.87 85% 87% 85% 86% Node js 7.52 1,343,968 744 22.37 73% 70% 85% 69% Go go version go1.16 linux/amd64 Node js v16.3.0 all Go programs & measurements all Node js programs & measurements