Perl versus Node js fastest programs Always look at the source code. These are only the fastest programs. Look at the other programs. They may seem more-like a fair comparison to you. pidigits source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 1.89 8,344 261 1.90 100% 1% 0% 0% Node js 1.30 36,036 599 1.32 0% 1% 100% 1% regex-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 9.99 156,124 820 29.82 51% 96% 61% 91% Node js 4.67 1,115,744 668 5.76 2% 2% 29% 91% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 37.86 1,253,064 652 132.61 84% 95% 87% 85% Node js 15.41 392,344 1812 42.69 45% 93% 61% 78% reverse-complement source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 6.35 1,495,212 287 6.54 100% 2% 0% 0% Node js 2.07 1,520,640 1481 4.26 14% 67% 61% 62% binary-trees source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 84.89 2,519,528 761 309.94 98% 91% 88% 88% Node js 5.75 1,221,440 711 19.16 81% 88% 84% 80% spectral-norm source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 25.68 12,092 555 101.06 98% 99% 98% 98% Node js 1.66 62,744 999 6.04 90% 90% 93% 90% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 61.34 55,252 871 61.71 0% 0% 100% 0% Node js 1.91 67,116 2047 6.13 77% 81% 78% 86% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 395.61 12,132 570 1,576.97 100% 99% 100% 100% Node js 11.54 56,856 1313 45.73 99% 99% 99% 99% n-body source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 411.70 6,564 1429 435.04 2% 2% 55% 47% Node js 8.38 35,220 1268 8.47 1% 0% 100% 0% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 532.78 43,996 586 2,130.59 100% 100% 100% 100% Node js 4.04 87,468 1122 15.91 99% 98% 98% 98% Perl This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 0 (v5.32.0) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi Node js v14.8.0 all Perl programs & measurements all Node js programs & measurements