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	3.86	19,684	1260	15.17
Rust #4	6.92	19,684	1026	27.13
Rust #5	7.45	19,684	1023	29.32
Rust #2	9.15	19,684	1198	35.91
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	19,624	1881	2.19
* Rust #7	3.23	19,624	1759	3.23
Rust #3	3.46	19,624	1774	3.45
Rust #2	3.64	19,624	1809	3.64
* Rust #6	4.36	19,624	1796	4.35
* Rust #5	5.01	19,624	2224	5.01
Rust #4	5.11	19,624	1810	5.11
Rust	5.52	19,624	1483	5.52
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	0.72	19,632	1262	2.80
* Rust #2	0.72	19,632	1117	2.80
Rust #4	0.72	19,632	823	2.85
* Rust #5	0.72	19,632	1062	2.85
* Rust #6	0.72	19,632	1132	2.85
* Rust #3	0.74	19,632	1060	2.86
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	0.95	33,392	1301	3.77
* Rust #6	1.07	34,152	1338	4.20
Rust #2	1.09	33,384	770	4.33
Rust #7	1.10	33,380	763	4.37
Rust #5	1.11	33,956	725	4.37
Rust #3	1.14	19,624	1013	4.54
Rust	2.00	39,404	874	7.88
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	19,624	2533	1.54
Rust #3	1.98	19,624	1235	1.98
Rust #9	0.94	19,624	1952	3.22
Rust #5	0.93	19,624	1963	3.34
Rust #2	0.92	19,624	1910	3.40
Rust #6	3.46	123,848	959	3.46
Rust #4	3.47	123,848	944	3.46
Rust	4.25	19,624	1240	4.25
* 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	2.67	133,824	1585	8.21
Rust #3	3.21	137,564	1549	9.51
Rust #6	2.80	159,764	1697	10.03
Rust #5	3.82	137,924	1745	11.17
Rust #2	5.87	138,292	1350	15.32
Rust #9	6.63	136,168	1850	17.12
Rust #4	6.73	137,308	1755	18.72
Node.js #3	16.48	436,784	1817	44.54
Rust	21.46	157,492	1086	66.75
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	498,952	2762	0.84
Rust #2	0.95	995,220	1332	1.58
Rust #3	0.97	995,156	1105	1.69
* 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	1.09	198,720	771	3.84
Rust #2	1.19	199,796	729	4.21
Rust #3	1.39	189,928	762	5.00
Rust #4	1.39	199,084	765	5.01
Rust	2.04	132,952	760	7.26
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	19,624	804	0.71
* Rust #3	0.74	19,624	1373	0.74
* Rust #2	0.74	19,624	1312	0.74
* Rust	0.74	19,624	1426	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	1.17	153,780	994	1.42
Rust	1.34	153,972	811	1.56
Rust #5	1.33	202,800	777	1.57
Rust #4	1.34	199,684	771	1.58
Rust #3	1.34	202,952	726	1.59
Rust #2	1.38	153,932	707	1.63
* Rust #7	0.78	148,924	2464	2.00
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	1.83.0 (90b35a623 2024-11-26) LLVM version: 19.1.1