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	3.85	324,200	810	6.01	27% 19% 20% 91%
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	1.28	12,024	567	1.29	0% 1% 100% 0%
Go	1.00	8,808	683	1.03	2% 1% 45% 55%
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	48.03	462,732	472	174.44	89% 97% 88% 89%
Go	12.23	392,744	1017	41.62	83% 87% 85% 85%
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	7.20	1,005,184	814	10.75	20% 53% 48% 29%
Go	1.35	1,560,228	996	2.24	24% 35% 10% 99%
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	46.28	241,108	1967	176.42	94% 97% 95% 96%
Go	7.46	160,328	1607	28.71	98% 95% 95% 97%
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	37.32	846,264	1947	71.03	10% 67% 83% 30%
Go	1.26	11,480	1404	3.89	79% 89% 70% 71%
fannkuch-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	352.29	12,232	950	1,392.10	97% 99% 100% 99%
Go	8.31	2,316	969	33.23	100% 100% 100% 100%
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	163.32	12,080	688	642.00	98% 98% 98% 98%
Go	3.73	34,192	905	14.85	99% 99% 99% 100%
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	busy	cpu load
Python 3	120.99	13,424	407	479.86	99% 99% 99% 99%
Go	1.43	2,208	548	5.68	99% 99% 100% 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	1,604	1200	6.42	0% 100% 0% 0%
Python 3	Python 3.9.2
Go	go version go1.17 linux/amd64