Perl 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. pidigits source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 3.61 8,548 261 3.69 0% 1% 1% 100% Node js 2.58 36,368 599 2.97 100% 6% 7% 2% regex-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 16.03 156,916 820 46.37 79% 77% 87% 46% Node js 9.53 756,856 668 12.74 71% 24% 13% 26% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 61.27 1,069,048 476 191.99 82% 93% 64% 74% Node js 26.32 397,472 1812 77.28 74% 71% 62% 87% reverse-complement source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 10.60 1,494,988 287 10.72 37% 0% 0% 63% Node js 4.10 1,340,368 1480 8.58 52% 56% 73% 28% binary-trees source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 129.89 2,519,152 761 457.58 96% 84% 88% 84% Node js 19.22 1,000,628 711 61.94 80% 82% 82% 79% spectral-norm source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 39.52 12,216 555 154.07 97% 98% 97% 98% Node js 4.40 61,768 999 16.63 93% 97% 95% 93% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 90.31 55,080 871 90.89 100% 0% 0% 0% Node js 3.62 67,488 2047 10.61 72% 75% 72% 74% n-body source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 729.64 6,528 1429 743.07 29% 47% 2% 24% Node js 26.28 35,412 1268 28.03 2% 0% 4% 100% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 569.32 12,088 570 2,231.43 97% 100% 97% 98% Node js 19.48 58,152 1313 77.05 99% 99% 99% 99% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load Perl 721.25 44,280 586 2,884.18 100% 100% 100% 100% Node js 6.84 88,016 1122 26.99 98% 98% 99% 98% Perl This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi Node js v14.2.0 all Perl programs & measurements all Node js programs & measurements