Go versus Node.js fastest performance

How the programs are written matters! 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	8.34	19,808	975	33.31
Node.js #5	11.47	94,880	1320	45.57
Go #8	46.13	19,440	500	46.24
Go	12.29	19,808	906	49.04
Go #2	12.35	19,808	903	49.32
Node.js #8	66.88	49,788	452	66.88
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #3	6.38	19,808	1207	6.40
Go	7.01	19,808	1316	7.03
Go #2	7.03	19,808	1222	7.05
Node.js #6	8.63	52,224	1274	8.63
Go #8	9.60	19,436	1224	9.62
Node.js #8	9.74	52,352	1173	9.75
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go	5.33	19,808	417	5.34
Node.js #7	5.36	51,956	420	5.37
Node.js	5.37	52,464	326	5.39
Go #2	1.50	19,808	674	5.68
Go #4	1.45	19,808	555	5.69
Node.js #6	1.57	102,656	1002	5.99
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #4	3.76	35,456	912	14.99
Go #3	3.77	35,456	900	15.00
Node.js #3	4.02	132,224	1128	15.91
Go	5.02	33,024	829	20.02
Go #8	26.68	19,440	500	26.74
Go #2	6.85	33,152	843	27.28
Go #6	6.89	33,024	707	27.44
Node.js #2	29.59	59,424	422	29.62
Node.js	64.42	54,472	380	64.53
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #4	0.82	19,808	689	0.83
Node.js #4	1.08	57,404	487	1.11
Go	1.18	19,808	715	1.20
Go #3	1.40	19,808	610	1.44
Go #2	1.84	19,808	740	1.89
Go #8	2.46	19,808	727	2.47
Go #7	4.99	19,808	702	5.61
Node.js #2	12.35	85,896	405	12.38
Node.js #3	12.48	85,704	431	12.51
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #3	4.31	799,680	675	5.34
Go #5	3.25	321,360	817	5.43
Node.js #4	5.54	966,596	471	5.68
Go #4	14.61	369,008	832	35.91
Go	25.37	319,956	749	61.07
Go #3	25.62	371,204	836	61.79
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go	3.73	19,808	1055	3.74
Go #2	1.27	19,808	1405	4.06
Go #3	1.51	19,808	1362	4.09
Node.js #5	2.49	106,400	2050	6.99
Go #8	18.27	19,440	838	18.46
Node.js	38.06	57,560	815	38.45
Node.js #8	532.80	60,800	723	533.29
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #7	7.63	163,072	1613	28.79
Go #3	8.18	145,280	1729	29.88
Go #6	8.21	145,152	1596	30.01
Go #4	9.16	140,032	1552	31.38
Node.js #3	16.35	429,444	1817	44.67
Node.js #2	36.18	485,300	941	111.06
Node.js	37.58	351,188	1011	114.02
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #2	2.19	800,640	614	2.29
Go #3	2.48	800,384	609	2.57
Go #6	1.91	1,244,508	1340	3.40
Node.js #2	15.71	728,180	1228	16.37
Go #5		Bad Output
Go		Failed
Node.js #7		Bad Output
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #7	17.30	1,067,648	458	29.17
Go #6	27.90	404,096	618	29.26
Node.js #6	9.07	1,348,960	752	31.26
Node.js #8	20.33	1,130,716	521	32.93
Node.js	8.91	1,393,184	717	33.54
Go #2	14.17	624,780	672	56.29
Go #3	14.91	326,508	806	58.00
Go #5	14.87	425,960	957	58.15
Go	32.01	243,192	488	59.78
Go #7	32.52	248,604	531	61.47
Go	go version go1.23.1 linux/amd64 GOAMD64=v2
Node.js	v22.8.0