Rust versus Go 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. regex-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 2.12 152,860 986 3.14 84% 17% 31% 17% Go 44.76 405,360 829 106.73 55% 52% 66% 65% binary-trees source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 3.37 199,752 721 12.26 100% 88% 88% 87% Go 25.68 361,532 950 101.67 99% 99% 99% 99% n-body source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 5.98 936 1753 6.10 1% 0% 69% 32% Go 21.26 1,884 1310 21.41 38% 62% 0% 0% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 1.70 30,560 1332 6.69 98% 98% 98% 99% Go 5.48 31,196 894 21.83 100% 100% 99% 99% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 5.36 135,048 1749 17.00 91% 55% 81% 90% Go 12.58 150,308 1722 47.83 95% 95% 95% 95% reverse-complement source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 1.68 994,588 1330 2.94 47% 25% 79% 24% Go 3.72 826,396 611 3.93 88% 1% 4% 13% spectral-norm source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 1.97 2,112 1126 7.87 99% 99% 100% 100% Go 3.96 2,692 548 15.74 99% 99% 99% 99% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 1.51 2,044 1906 4.58 82% 74% 73% 75% Go 2.07 3,744 1358 5.52 79% 80% 27% 81% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 11.08 872 1016 43.55 99% 94% 100% 100% Go 14.75 3,484 969 58.94 100% 100% 100% 100% pidigits source secs mem gz busy cpu load Rust 1.75 3,052 1366 1.79 100% 2% 0% 1% Go 2.04 8,732 603 2.09 10% 13% 28% 52% Rust rustc 1.42.0 (b8cedc004 2020-03-09) LLVM version: 9.0 Go go version go1.14 linux/amd64 all Rust programs & measurements all Go programs & measurements