Node.js versus Dart 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
Dart #3	40.88	19,620	553	40.88
Node.js #5	11.05	101,616	1320	43.85
Dart #5	12.55	19,620	1227	49.81
Dart #2	57.81	19,620	510	57.80
Node.js #8	58.06	51,484	452	58.05
Dart #8	70.09	19,620	508	70.09
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Dart #6	6.97	19,712	1318	6.97
Dart #8	7.49	19,712	1268	7.49
Node.js #6	8.55	54,100	1274	8.56
Dart #2	8.91	19,712	1273	8.91
Node.js #8	9.58	53,716	1173	9.59
Dart #3	11.08	19,712	1413	11.08
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Dart	5.33	19,724	468	5.33
Node.js #7	5.36	53,724	420	5.37
Node.js	5.37	54,808	326	5.39
Dart #6	1.45	19,724	1202	5.70
Node.js #6	1.56	107,280	1002	5.99
Node.js #8	6.49	54,632	355	6.50
Dart #8	10.88	19,436	422	10.88
Dart #2	3.26	23,772	1173	12.61
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Dart #3	15.64	19,712	620	15.64
Node.js #3	4.00	135,476	1128	15.83
Dart #4	4.19	71,752	988	16.29
Node.js #2	29.36	61,144	422	29.39
Dart #2	29.86	19,712	494	29.85
Dart #6	11.87	80,176	914	31.84
Node.js	70.55	55,900	380	70.64
Node.js #8	72.49	56,116	412	72.52
Dart	137.97	19,712	462	137.92
Dart #8	202.26	19,492	471	202.28
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Dart #3	4.17	490,192	1114	4.18
Dart #4	4.19	403,212	1307	4.30
Dart	4.44	19,620	1407	4.44
Dart #5	3.07	403,208	1489	4.90
* Node.js #5	2.52	112,392	2050	7.08
Dart #2	14.46	19,620	1075	14.46
Node.js	38.40	58,880	815	38.77
Node.js #8	531.27	62,400	723	531.53
Dart #8	911.72	19,492	796	911.42
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #3	16.48	436,784	1817	44.54
Dart #3	18.50	221,428	1526	55.76
Node.js #2	38.24	486,844	941	112.58
Node.js	39.98	356,716	1011	117.63
Dart	551.78	464,108	628	551.97
Dart #8	555.11	524,768	676	555.57
Node.js #8		Bad Output
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Dart #5	8.95	1,994,744	942	12.12
* Node.js #2	15.44	731,804	1228	16.09
Dart	19.20	1,001,112	651	20.10
Dart #3	58.10	6,394,552	571	64.47
Dart #2	91.20	6,406,136	575	99.37
* Node.js #7		Bad Output
Dart #4		Bad Output
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Dart #6	11.70	445,528	488	15.84
Dart #8	14.10	432,452	536	18.56
Dart #4	11.56	562,668	1394	24.55
Dart #7	10.93	674,712	869	24.84
Node.js #7	16.02	1,070,260	458	28.26
Dart #5	12.60	474,784	1023	28.93
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
Dart #3	21.25	5,400,800	1219	53.12
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #4	1.11	59,620	487	1.14
Dart #2	2.85	19,780	496	2.89
Dart #3	3.23	19,780	495	3.27
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
Node.js #4	5.41	978,952	471	5.56
Dart #4	13.48	472,972	513	13.62
Dart #5	8.62	521,032	710	13.85
Dart #3	9.96	563,160	1061	17.39
Dart #2	17.14	515,328	667	17.70
Node.js	v23.0.0
Dart	Dart SDK version: 3.5.4 (stable) Wed Oct 16 16:18:51 2024