Fastest cpu secs Go versus Python 3

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 cpu seconds, less gz source code.

fannkuch-redux
source	mem	gz	cpu
Go #3	2,260	969	32.88
Go	2,956	900	47.36
Go #2	11,316	896	47.56
Python 3 #6	7,432	385	1,279.15
Python 3 #4	45,420	950	1,336.72
n-body
source	mem	gz	cpu
Go #3	1,136	1200	6.38
Go	1,136	1310	6.58
Go #2	1,132	1215	6.94
Python 3	7,756	1196	575.02
Python 3 #2	8,244	1242	592.71
spectral-norm
source	mem	gz	cpu
Go	2,452	411	5.33
Go #4	1,952	548	5.67
Go #2	1,420	668	5.68
Python 3 #6	9,332	328	436.79
Python 3 #8	48,336	407	472.82
Python 3 #7	48,400	417	494.32
mandelbrot
source	mem	gz	cpu
Go #4	33,812	905	14.85
Go #3	34,028	894	14.91
Go	32,600	823	19.58
Go #2	33,196	837	27.07
Go #6	32,764	700	27.25
Python 3 #7	46,192	688	706.10
Python 3 #5		Failed
Python 3 #2		Timed Out
pidigits
source	mem	gz	cpu
Go #4	8,732	683	0.87
Python 3 #3	11,968	567	1.13
Go #3	9,320	603	1.18
Go	9,496	708	1.21
Go #2	9,032	733	1.59
Go #8	9,924	720	2.54
Python 3 #4	8,668	342	4.06
Go #7	8,620	696	5.05
Python 3 #2		Bad Output
regex-redux
source	mem	gz	cpu
Python 3 #2	111,680	1403	2.66
Go #5	306,476	810	5.97
Python 3	458,264	512	17.86
Go #4	355,844	829	34.99
Go #3	358,472	829	67.28
Go	297,048	741	68.45
fasta
source	mem	gz	cpu
Go	1,112	1053	3.64
Go #2	10,980	1404	3.84
Go #3	3,168	1358	3.98
Python 3 #2	8,184	1121	60.26
Python 3 #3	8,112	1003	60.50
Python 3	8,040	817	70.54
Python 3 #5	837,684	1947	71.74
k-nucleotide
source	mem	gz	cpu
Go #7	159,432	1607	28.49
Go #6	149,712	1590	29.40
Go #4	144,528	1543	30.22
Go #3	149,984	1722	30.25
Python 3 #3	252,668	1967	172.53
Python 3	351,092	607	240.16
Python 3 #8	473,988	655	242.16
reverse-complement
source	mem	gz	cpu
Go #2	826,796	611	1.94
Go #3	826,544	605	2.13
Go #5	1,483,756	996	2.26
Go #6	1,289,572	1338	2.48
Python 3 #2	1,786,488	434	9.38
Python 3	1,979,276	479	9.63
Python 3 #6	1,005,184	814	10.64
Python 3 #4	4,001,684	335	12.31
Go		Failed
binary-trees
source	mem	gz	cpu
Go #6	411,424	611	29.23
Go #2	632,396	666	48.67
Go #3	328,700	799	50.09
Go #5	394,800	950	50.52
Go	240,292	482	51.02
Go #7	259,088	525	51.41
Python 3 #2	270,872	338	148.09
Python 3 #5	273,284	660	172.44
Python 3 #4	456,220	472	176.37
Python 3	282,996	589	178.66
Python 3 #3	669,832	1238	230.73
Go	go version go1.18 linux/amd64
Python 3	Python 3.10.4