Node.js versus Rust 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
* Rust #6	3.88	19,804	1260	15.27
Rust #4	6.93	19,804	1026	27.20
Rust #5	7.66	19,804	1023	29.90
Rust #2	9.15	19,804	1198	35.90
Node.js #5	11.05	101,616	1320	43.85
Node.js #8	58.06	51,484	452	58.05
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* Rust #9	2.19	19,804	1881	2.19
* Rust #7	3.25	19,804	1759	3.24
Rust #2	3.94	19,804	1809	3.94
* Rust #6	4.30	19,804	1796	4.30
Rust #3	4.49	19,352	1774	4.49
* Rust #5	5.01	19,804	2224	5.01
Rust #4	5.10	19,804	1810	5.10
Rust	5.51	19,804	1483	5.51
Node.js #6	8.55	54,100	1274	8.56
Node.js #8	9.58	53,716	1173	9.59
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* Rust #6	0.72	19,804	1132	2.85
Rust #4	0.72	19,804	823	2.85
* Rust #5	0.72	19,804	1062	2.85
* Rust #2	0.78	19,804	1117	2.98
* Rust	0.77	19,804	1262	2.99
* Rust #3	0.78	19,804	1060	3.00
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
* Rust #7		Make Error
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* Rust #4	0.94	33,408	1301	3.73
Rust #2	1.07	33,592	770	4.23
* Rust #6	1.08	34,048	1338	4.23
Rust #7	1.06	33,408	763	4.23
Rust #5	1.13	34,048	725	4.43
Rust #3	1.14	19,860	1013	4.54
Rust	2.00	39,296	874	7.84
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
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* Rust #7	0.77	19,804	2533	1.54
Rust #3	1.98	19,804	1235	1.97
Rust #2	0.92	19,932	1910	3.09
Rust #9	0.93	19,352	1952	3.13
Rust #5	0.94	19,932	1963	3.14
Rust #6	3.46	123,652	959	3.45
Rust #4	3.57	123,652	944	3.57
Rust	4.24	19,804	1240	4.24
* Node.js #5	2.52	112,392	2050	7.08
Node.js #8	18.42	61,784	742	18.61
Node.js	38.40	58,880	815	38.77
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Rust #7	2.84	133,840	1585	8.91
Rust #6	2.96	159,600	1697	10.67
Rust #3	3.52	137,568	1549	10.78
Rust #5	3.96	137,844	1745	11.95
Rust #2	6.28	138,736	1350	16.39
Rust #9	6.44	135,800	1850	17.00
Rust #4	6.74	137,440	1755	18.30
Node.js #3	16.48	436,784	1817	44.54
Rust	22.54	157,124	1086	67.38
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
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* Rust	0.53	498,816	2762	0.83
Rust #2	0.98	995,200	1332	1.62
Rust #3	0.98	995,200	1105	1.68
* Node.js #2	15.44	731,804	1228	16.09
* Node.js #7		Bad Output
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Rust #5	1.08	198,656	771	3.77
Rust #2	1.22	199,684	729	4.29
Rust #4	1.33	187,948	765	4.80
Rust #3	1.40	188,740	762	5.06
Rust	2.05	132,992	760	7.21
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
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Rust #4	0.71	19,804	804	0.71
* Rust #3	0.74	19,804	1373	0.74
* Rust	0.74	19,804	1426	0.74
* Rust #2	0.74	19,804	1312	0.74
Node.js #4	1.11	59,620	487	1.14
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
Rust #6	1.18	154,096	994	1.44
Rust	1.33	153,792	811	1.58
Rust #5	1.34	203,224	777	1.58
Rust #2	1.34	153,776	707	1.60
Rust #4	1.35	199,548	771	1.61
Rust #3	1.36	202,908	726	1.61
* Rust #7	0.78	149,888	2464	1.99
Node.js #3	4.27	796,080	675	5.30
Node.js #4	5.41	978,952	471	5.56
Node.js	v23.0.0
Rust	1.80.1 (3f5fd8dd4 2024-08-06) LLVM version: 18.1.7