Node.js versus Ruby yjit 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
Node.js #5	11.05	101,616	1320	43.85
Node.js #8	58.06	51,484	452	58.05
Ruby yjit #2	139.05	21,120	1462	521.30
Ruby yjit	1,354.19	20,864	391	1,354.14
Ruby yjit #8	1,980.46	20,736	418	1,980.37
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #6	8.55	54,100	1274	8.56
Node.js #8	9.58	53,716	1173	9.59
Ruby yjit #3	186.79	20,864	1169	186.79
Ruby yjit #2	215.78	20,864	1143	215.77
Ruby yjit #8	388.21	21,376	1160	388.20
Ruby yjit #7	704.57	21,120	1139	704.53
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #7	5.36	53,724	420	5.37
Node.js	5.37	54,808	326	5.39
Node.js #6	1.56	107,280	1002	5.99
Node.js #8	6.49	54,632	355	6.50
Ruby yjit #4	128.52	22,656	333	128.51
Ruby yjit #8	168.99	21,120	294	168.99
Ruby yjit #5	57.89	27,264	764	212.15
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #3	4.00	135,476	1128	15.83
Node.js #2	29.36	61,144	422	29.39
Node.js	70.55	55,900	380	70.64
Node.js #8	72.49	56,116	412	72.52
Ruby yjit #5	150.28	86,144	978	600.37
Ruby yjit #4	652.14	135,516	853	652.89
Ruby yjit #2	254.39	93,952	887	1,016.26
Ruby yjit #8	1,507.03	21,428	364	1,506.75
Ruby yjit #3	1,588.59	20,992	313	1,588.52
Ruby yjit #6		Failed
Ruby yjit #7		Failed
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* Node.js #5	2.52	112,392	2050	7.08
Node.js #8	18.42	61,784	742	18.61
Ruby yjit #6	31.90	120,832	1097	31.90
Node.js	38.40	58,880	815	38.77
Ruby yjit #3	43.90	120,576	1035	43.90
Ruby yjit #5	90.76	23,168	1000	90.75
Ruby yjit #4	95.10	266,624	864	95.09
Ruby yjit #2	106.06	147,176	747	106.05
Ruby yjit #8	188.45	21,428	700	187.83
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #3	16.48	436,784	1817	44.54
Node.js #2	38.24	486,844	941	112.58
Node.js	39.98	356,716	1011	117.63
Node.js #8	144.82	692,816	678	145.44
Ruby yjit #2	252.78	181,808	426	252.58
Ruby yjit #3	277.67	207,596	546	277.88
Ruby yjit #7	300.36	392,960	792	298.86
Ruby yjit	86.11	171,696	583	302.91
Ruby yjit #8	788.25	572,736	529	787.84
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Ruby yjit #4	5.88	2,510,920	608	11.51
Ruby yjit #5	14.12	1,623,336	301	14.11
* Node.js #2	15.44	731,804	1228	16.09
Ruby yjit #3	8.95	4,235,052	490	17.34
Ruby yjit #2	27.45	1,001,920	272	27.45
Ruby yjit	18.31	5,141,976	521	35.91
* Node.js #7		Bad Output
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #7	16.02	1,070,260	458	28.26
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
Ruby yjit #4	47.23	478,464	371	47.22
Ruby yjit	48.86	478,592	383	48.85
Ruby yjit #2	48.90	524,800	385	48.89
Ruby yjit #3	49.82	517,080	407	49.81
Ruby yjit #5	19.08	521,972	1016	54.19
Ruby yjit #8	130.97	478,720	494	130.95
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Node.js #4	1.11	59,620	487	1.14
Ruby yjit #5	1.50	1,011,072	494	1.50
Ruby yjit #2	3.10	2,431,144	666	3.09
Node.js #2	12.16	87,228	405	12.19
Node.js #3	12.25	87,708	431	12.28
Ruby yjit	17.73	104,576	524	17.72
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
Ruby yjit #2	22.86	216,576	444	22.87
Ruby yjit #3	11.84	216,576	730	23.97
Ruby yjit #9	29.92	216,704	340	29.91
Node.js	v23.0.0
Ruby yjit	ruby 3.3.5 (2024-09-03 revision ef084cc8f4) +YJIT [x86_64-linux]