Go versus Python 3 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.

n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	6.38	1,604	1200	6.42	0% 100% 0% 0%
Python 3	567.56	8,076	1196	570.95	0% 0% 0% 100%
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	1.43	2,208	548	5.68	99% 99% 100% 99%
Python 3	120.99	13,424	407	479.86	99% 99% 99% 99%
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	3.73	34,192	905	14.85	99% 99% 99% 100%
Python 3	163.32	12,080	688	642.00	98% 98% 98% 98%
fannkuch-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	8.31	2,316	969	33.23	100% 100% 100% 100%
Python 3	352.29	12,232	950	1,392.10	97% 99% 100% 99%
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	1.26	11,480	1404	3.89	79% 89% 70% 71%
Python 3	37.32	846,264	1947	71.03	10% 67% 83% 30%
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	7.46	160,328	1607	28.71	98% 95% 95% 97%
Python 3	46.28	241,108	1967	176.42	94% 97% 95% 96%
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	1.35	1,560,228	996	2.24	24% 35% 10% 99%
Python 3	7.20	1,005,184	814	10.75	20% 53% 48% 29%
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	12.23	392,744	1017	41.62	83% 87% 85% 85%
Python 3	48.03	462,732	472	174.44	89% 97% 88% 89%
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	1.00	8,808	683	1.03	2% 1% 45% 55%
Python 3	1.28	12,024	567	1.29	0% 1% 100% 0%
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Go	3.85	324,200	810	6.01	27% 19% 20% 91%
Python 3	1.36	111,852	1403	2.64	32% 40% 33% 88%
Go	go version go1.17 linux/amd64
Python 3	Python 3.9.2