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	11.05	101,616	1320	43.85
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	58.06	51,484	452	58.05
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	8.55	54,100	1274	8.56
Node.js #8	9.58	53,716	1173	9.59
Go #8	9.60	19,436	1224	9.62
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #8	5.33	19,416	429	5.34
Go	5.33	19,808	417	5.34
Node.js #7	5.36	53,724	420	5.37
Node.js	5.37	54,808	326	5.39
Go #2	1.50	19,808	674	5.68
Go #4	1.45	19,808	555	5.69
Node.js #6	1.56	107,280	1002	5.99
Node.js #8	6.49	54,632	355	6.50
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	4.00	135,476	1128	15.83
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	29.36	61,144	422	29.39
Node.js	70.55	55,900	380	70.64
Node.js #8	72.49	56,116	412	72.52
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	2.52	112,392	2050	7.08
Go #8	18.27	19,440	838	18.46
Node.js	38.40	58,880	815	38.77
Node.js #8	531.27	62,400	723	531.53
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	16.48	436,784	1817	44.54
Node.js #2	38.24	486,844	941	112.58
Node.js	39.98	356,716	1011	117.63
Node.js #8		Bad Output
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	15.44	731,804	1228	16.09
Go #5		Bad Output
Go		Failed
* Node.js #7		Bad Output
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #7	16.02	1,070,260	458	28.26
Go #6	27.90	404,096	618	29.26
Node.js #6	8.60	1,250,816	752	30.68
Node.js #8	19.86	1,334,104	521	32.74
Node.js	8.92	1,405,276	717	33.60
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
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* Go #4	0.82	19,808	689	0.83
Node.js #4	1.11	59,620	487	1.14
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 #6	2.46	19,512	727	2.46
Go #7	4.99	19,808	702	5.61
Node.js #2	12.16	87,228	405	12.19
Node.js #3	12.25	87,708	431	12.28
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #3	4.27	796,080	675	5.30
Go #5	3.25	321,360	817	5.43
Node.js #4	5.41	978,952	471	5.56
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
Go	go version go1.23.1 linux/amd64 GOAMD64=v2
Node.js	v23.0.0