Erlang HiPE 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. binary-trees source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 8.33 468,264 478 25.17 76% 83% 71% 72% Node js 19.22 1,000,628 711 61.94 80% 82% 82% 79% spectral-norm source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 16.73 34,356 747 64.19 97% 95% 95% 97% Node js 4.40 61,768 999 16.63 93% 97% 95% 93% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 84.89 24,188 1038 337.93 99% 100% 99% 100% Node js 19.48 58,152 1313 77.05 99% 99% 99% 99% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 144.25 757,756 937 407.46 91% 66% 62% 63% Node js 26.32 397,472 1812 77.28 74% 71% 62% 87% regex-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 60.01 2,136,672 1048 101.58 39% 41% 36% 53% Node js 9.53 756,856 668 12.74 71% 24% 13% 26% pidigits source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 16.33 27,624 562 17.76 9% 4% 3% 93% Node js 2.58 36,368 599 2.97 100% 6% 7% 2% n-body source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 191.97 24,504 1399 204.49 37% 33% 26% 11% Node js 26.28 35,412 1268 28.03 2% 0% 4% 100% reverse-complement source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 41.88 2,600,884 1302 115.39 74% 77% 62% 62% Node js 4.10 1,340,368 1480 8.58 52% 56% 73% 28% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 48.18 24,632 1164 52.97 6% 51% 49% 4% Node js 3.62 67,488 2047 10.61 72% 75% 72% 74% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load Erlang HiPE 109.96 51,676 792 439.44 100% 100% 100% 100% Node js 6.84 88,016 1122 26.99 98% 98% 99% 98% Erlang HiPE Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.7] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe] Node js v14.2.0 all Erlang HiPE programs & measurements all Node js programs & measurements