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	8.36	19,656	975	33.34
Node.js #5	11.63	93,696	1320	46.11
Go	11.77	19,656	906	46.92
Go #2	11.83	19,656	903	47.16
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #3	6.38	19,688	1207	6.39
Go	7.00	19,688	1316	7.02
Go #2	7.03	19,688	1222	7.04
Node.js #6	8.62	51,184	1274	8.62
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go	5.33	20,116	417	5.34
Node.js #7	5.37	50,684	420	5.37
Node.js	5.38	51,676	326	5.39
Go #4	1.43	20,340	555	5.68
Go #2	1.50	20,148	674	5.69
Node.js #6	1.57	100,736	1002	5.97
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #3	3.77	35,328	900	14.99
Go #4	3.77	35,328	912	15.00
Node.js #3	4.01	130,176	1128	15.89
Go	5.01	33,024	829	19.93
Go #2	6.86	33,152	843	27.28
Go #6	6.91	32,896	707	27.48
Node.js #2	29.57	58,340	422	29.60
Node.js	63.05	53,564	380	63.16
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #4	0.96	19,700	689	0.98
Node.js #4	1.23	56,100	487	1.26
Go	1.34	19,700	715	1.36
Go #3	1.65	19,700	610	1.69
Go #2	2.18	19,700	740	2.23
Go #8	2.51	19,700	727	2.51
Go #7	5.19	19,700	702	5.98
Node.js #2	12.45	84,544	405	12.47
Node.js #3	12.53	84,420	431	12.55
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #3	4.33	798,716	675	5.35
Go #5	3.22	320,724	817	5.39
Node.js #4	5.57	965,848	471	5.71
Go #4	14.78	397,240	832	36.01
Go #3	25.54	370,524	836	61.42
Go	25.87	311,444	749	64.23
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go	3.74	19,664	1055	3.74
Go #2	1.27	19,664	1405	4.07
Go #3	1.50	19,664	1362	4.08
Node.js #5	2.56	106,236	2050	7.02
Node.js	39.46	56,616	815	39.85
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #7	7.53	162,816	1613	28.78
Go #6	8.26	145,152	1596	30.01
Go #3	8.29	145,152	1729	30.02
Go #4	9.22	139,776	1552	30.55
Node.js #3	16.23	427,144	1817	44.72
Node.js	38.11	350,996	1011	112.40
Node.js #2	36.57	488,892	941	113.15
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #2	2.24	800,512	614	2.34
Go #3	2.50	800,128	609	2.60
Go #6	1.93	1,246,404	1340	3.43
Node.js #2	15.95	727,052	1228	16.59
Go #5		Bad Output
Go		Failed
Node.js #7		Bad Output
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #6	27.68	404,224	618	29.07
Node.js #7	17.72	1,066,752	458	29.22
Node.js #6	9.08	1,231,216	752	31.03
Node.js	9.00	1,338,008	717	33.30
Go #2	13.86	594,740	672	55.04
Go #5	14.29	317,028	957	56.60
Go #3	14.72	343,248	806	57.03
Go	31.84	237,200	488	59.20
Go #7	31.79	250,476	531	59.90
Go	go version go1.22.3 linux/amd64 GOAMD64=v2
Node.js	v22.2.0