Fastest cpu secs Racket versus Python 3

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 cpu seconds, less gz source code.

fannkuch-redux
source	mem	gz	cpu
Racket #2	66,616	908	111.70
Racket #3	68,148	1101	120.34
Racket	66,312	649	143.11
Python 3 #6	7,432	385	1,279.15
Python 3 #4	45,420	950	1,336.72
n-body
source	mem	gz	cpu
Racket #2	68,496	1689	14.09
Racket	68,936	1496	40.83
Python 3	7,756	1196	575.02
Python 3 #2	8,244	1242	592.71
spectral-norm
source	mem	gz	cpu
Racket #3	65,100	627	14.71
Racket #2	65,336	532	14.99
Racket	66,852	446	29.47
Python 3 #6	9,332	328	436.79
Python 3 #8	48,336	407	472.82
Python 3 #7	48,400	417	494.32
mandelbrot
source	mem	gz	cpu
Racket #3	65,448	802	34.63
Racket #4	103,948	801	41.19
Racket	66,768	517	49.23
Racket #2	65,576	585	51.16
Python 3 #7	46,192	688	706.10
Python 3 #5		Failed
Python 3 #2		Timed Out
pidigits
source	mem	gz	cpu
Racket #2	67,012	1136	1.02
Python 3 #3	11,968	567	1.13
Python 3 #4	8,668	342	4.06
Racket	71,068	453	12.25
Python 3 #2		Bad Output
regex-redux
source	mem	gz	cpu
Python 3 #2	111,680	1403	2.66
Python 3	458,264	512	17.86
Racket	2,074,452	541	21.84
Racket #2	2,003,760	729	22.58
fasta
source	mem	gz	cpu
Racket #3	66,908	1280	7.99
Racket	66,768	1066	18.91
Python 3 #2	8,184	1121	60.26
Python 3 #3	8,112	1003	60.50
Python 3	8,040	817	70.54
Python 3 #5	837,684	1947	71.74
k-nucleotide
source	mem	gz	cpu
Racket #4	988,500	885	63.58
Python 3 #3	252,668	1967	172.53
Racket	2,614,596	547	199.02
Python 3	351,092	607	240.16
Python 3 #8	473,988	655	242.16
reverse-complement
source	mem	gz	cpu
Racket #2	687,976	1030	8.74
Python 3 #2	1,786,488	434	9.38
Python 3	1,979,276	479	9.63
Python 3 #6	1,005,184	814	10.64
Python 3 #4	4,001,684	335	12.31
Racket	2,575,076	553	39.70
binary-trees
source	mem	gz	cpu
Racket #3	299,864	473	6.42
Racket #4	545,328	853	8.90
Racket #2	308,092	416	8.95
Racket	435,536	476	15.25
Python 3 #2	270,872	338	148.09
Python 3 #5	273,284	660	172.44
Python 3 #4	456,220	472	176.37
Python 3	282,996	589	178.66
Python 3 #3	669,832	1238	230.73
Racket	Racket v8.5 [cs].
Python 3	Python 3.10.4