Go versus Node js fastest performance

Always look at the source code.

If the fastest programs are hand-written vector instructions, does the host language matter? You might be more interested in the less optimised programs — more seconds, less gz source code.

fannkuch-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #3	8.25	10,936	969	32.92
Node js #5	11.08	81,124	1313	43.87
Go	11.83	11,128	900	47.26
Go #2	11.89	12,708	896	47.47
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #3	6.36	11,244	1200	6.37
Go	6.55	11,244	1310	6.56
Go #2	6.94	11,244	1215	6.95
Node js #6	8.41	45,908	1268	9.39
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go	5.31	11,244	411	5.32
Node js #7	5.36	46,704	414	5.37
Node js	5.44	47,212	319	5.45
Go #4	1.42	11,244	548	5.67
Go #2	1.44	11,244	668	5.67
Node js #6	1.66	88,700	999	6.10
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #3	3.73	36,140	894	14.86
Go #4	3.73	36,116	905	14.87
Node js #3	4.03	118,432	1122	15.92
Go	4.92	33,624	823	19.65
Go #2	6.76	33,928	837	26.97
Go #6	6.83	33,632	700	27.22
Node js #2	28.20	53,644	416	28.23
Node js	130.80	49,372	373	130.71
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #4	1.01	11,244	683	1.02
Node js #4	1.26	49,328	481	1.28
Go	1.37	11,244	708	1.38
Go #3	1.63	11,244	603	1.66
Go #2	1.97	11,244	733	2.00
Go #8	2.46	11,244	720	2.46
Go #7	4.80	23,844	696	5.31
Node js #2	12.95	78,356	397	12.97
Node js #3	13.09	78,112	424	13.11
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node js #3	4.51	768,724	668	5.58
Node js #4	5.76	991,704	463	5.93
Go #5	4.14	302,280	810	6.25
Go #4	14.80	360,260	829	34.62
Go #3	27.89	368,528	829	67.15
Go	28.35	317,752	741	67.40
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go	3.78	11,128	1053	3.78
Go #3	1.49	11,136	1358	4.10
Go #2	1.26	11,136	1404	4.26
Node js #5	2.20	94,408	2047	6.32
Node js	33.14	54,432	809	33.43
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #7	7.48	166,412	1607	28.68
Go #6	7.96	148,080	1590	29.25
Go #3	8.28	148,412	1722	29.93
Go #4	9.50	142,624	1543	31.55
Node js #3	15.72	416,500	1812	43.32
Node js #2	37.55	486,856	935	116.51
Node js	40.21	518,808	1008	117.96
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #2	1.76	814,544	611	1.80
Go #3	1.96	814,352	605	2.00
Go #6	1.33	1,278,596	1338	2.46
Node js #2	15.94	731,396	1221	16.58
Go #5		Bad Output
Go		Failed
Node js #7		Bad Output
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node js	6.37	1,295,776	711	19.51
Node js #6	8.22	1,257,276	744	24.87
Go #6	27.82	410,808	611	28.59
Node js #7	33.78	1,135,992	451	38.12
Go #5	14.70	406,544	950	57.87
Go #2	14.69	642,688	666	58.49
Go #3	15.07	342,008	799	58.61
Go #7	33.37	247,824	525	60.85
Go	34.62	236,728	482	61.41
Go	go version go1.20 linux/amd64 GOAMD64=v2
Node js	build 19.0.1+10-21