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 1.90 8,268 261 2.16 100% 2% 3% 9% Node js 1.16 34,980 599 1.21 1% 1% 99% 3% regex-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 10.10 157,208 820 31.98 96% 67% 93% 61% Node js 4.76 1,152,392 668 5.82 1% 1% 28% 91% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 37.72 1,255,884 652 131.45 88% 89% 87% 85% Node js 15.48 395,304 1812 42.72 77% 92% 61% 46% reverse-complement source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 6.36 1,495,132 287 6.52 0% 0% 2% 100% Node js 2.12 1,525,056 1481 4.38 48% 27% 70% 62% binary-trees source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 53.02 1,048,568 797 195.75 91% 88% 100% 90% Node js 7.34 1,262,364 744 22.41 75% 84% 72% 75% spectral-norm source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 24.69 12,188 555 96.59 97% 99% 98% 97% Node js 1.84 61,080 999 6.15 84% 81% 86% 83% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 58.08 55,188 871 59.16 1% 100% 1% 0% Node js 2.02 67,936 2047 6.27 78% 81% 75% 75% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 392.54 12,116 570 1,568.84 100% 100% 100% 100% Node js 11.89 61,216 1313 45.33 96% 94% 96% 94% n-body source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 419.75 6,388 1429 429.50 1% 1% 1% 100% Node js 8.36 34,332 1268 8.37 0% 0% 0% 100% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 542.82 45,036 586 2,169.30 100% 100% 100% 100% Node js 4.03 89,888 1122 15.89 99% 98% 98% 99% Perl This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 0 (v5.32.0) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi Node js v15.2.1 all Perl programs & measurements all Node js programs & measurements