Python 3 versus Go fastest programs

Always look at the source code.

These are only the fastest programs. Do some of them use manually vectorized SIMD? Look at the other programs. They may seem more-like a fair comparison to you.

regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	1.36	111,852	1403	2.64	32% 40% 33% 88%
Go	3.94	323,252	810	6.14	74% 30% 19% 33%
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	1.28	12,024	567	1.29	0% 1% 100% 0%
Go	1.00	8,952	683	1.04	0% 3% 99% 2%
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	51.07	278,324	589	178.28	85% 86% 93% 85%
Go	12.80	385,036	1017	43.87	85% 87% 85% 86%
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	7.20	1,005,184	814	10.75	20% 53% 48% 29%
Go	1.42	1,344,600	1338	2.66	57% 36% 71% 24%
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	46.28	241,108	1967	176.42	94% 97% 95% 96%
Go	8.30	160,300	1607	31.96	96% 98% 96% 95%
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	37.32	846,264	1947	71.03	10% 67% 83% 30%
Go	1.28	11,276	1404	3.78	65% 86% 81% 65%
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	163.32	12,080	688	642.00	98% 98% 98% 98%
Go	3.75	34,832	894	14.92	100% 99% 99% 100%
fannkuch-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	352.29	12,232	950	1,392.10	97% 99% 100% 99%
Go	7.59	2,064	969	30.31	100% 100% 100% 100%
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	120.99	13,424	407	479.86	99% 99% 99% 99%
Go	1.44	2,356	548	5.71	99% 99% 99% 99%
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	567.56	8,076	1196	570.95	0% 0% 0% 100%
Go	6.38	1,896	1200	6.43	0% 100% 1% 0%
Python 3	Python 3.9.2
Go	go version go1.16 linux/amd64