Erlang HiPE versus Node js 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. binary-trees source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 4.17 385,804 478 11.73 67% 84% 62% 69% Node js 7.44 1,233,920 744 23.55 79% 75% 75% 87% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 59.08 24,856 1038 234.23 99% 99% 99% 99% Node js 12.01 63,672 1313 45.81 95% 97% 94% 95% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 86.79 855,628 937 239.31 57% 66% 58% 94% Node js 15.61 396,176 1812 43.89 63% 93% 42% 84% spectral-norm source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 11.18 36,732 747 44.14 98% 99% 99% 99% Node js 1.88 67,108 999 6.23 84% 84% 81% 83% pidigits source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 7.94 28,088 562 8.34 8% 88% 2% 7% Node js 1.28 36,568 599 1.29 0% 0% 99% 2% regex-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 42.76 3,372,420 1048 61.66 32% 16% 37% 59% Node js 4.89 1,149,928 668 5.96 1% 6% 24% 91% reverse-complement source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 25.62 2,765,104 1302 68.99 56% 52% 77% 85% Node js 2.09 1,534,860 1480 4.40 40% 60% 75% 36% n-body source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 140.03 24,832 1399 141.22 0% 100% 0% 0% Node js 8.58 35,736 1268 8.64 0% 0% 100% 0% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 84.88 54,364 806 339.25 100% 100% 100% 100% Node js 4.04 94,720 1122 15.94 98% 100% 99% 98% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 57.01 25,348 1039 73.11 9% 14% 100% 5% Node js 1.96 71,268 2047 6.19 84% 81% 75% 75% Erlang HiPE Erlang/OTP 23 [erts-11.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe] Node js v16.0.0 all Erlang HiPE programs & measurements all Node js programs & measurements