VW Smalltalk 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 VW Smalltalk 32.55 375,964 930 83.17 73% 64% 58% 61% Node js 19.22 1,000,628 711 61.94 80% 82% 82% 79% pidigits source secs mem gz busy cpu load VW Smalltalk 15.22 55,620 753 15.31 0% 0% 100% 0% Node js 2.58 36,368 599 2.97 100% 6% 7% 2% n-body source secs mem gz busy cpu load VW Smalltalk 199.03 54,988 1782 202.03 1% 91% 9% 1% Node js 26.28 35,412 1268 28.03 2% 0% 4% 100% spectral-norm source secs mem gz busy cpu load VW Smalltalk 33.65 246,512 1047 111.23 80% 82% 84% 85% Node js 4.40 61,768 999 16.63 93% 97% 95% 93% fasta source secs mem gz busy cpu load VW Smalltalk 48.54 55,108 1539 53.76 40% 0% 65% 5% Node js 3.62 67,488 2047 10.61 72% 75% 72% 74% mandelbrot source secs mem gz busy cpu load VW Smalltalk 168.51 178,660 929 582.35 87% 96% 75% 88% Node js 6.84 88,016 1122 26.99 98% 98% 99% 98% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz busy cpu load VW Smalltalk 651.32 381,100 1317 659.29 1% 13% 87% 1% Node js 26.32 397,472 1812 77.28 74% 71% 62% 87% fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load VW Smalltalk 714.56 55,020 916 722.40 0% 100% 0% 1% Node js 19.48 58,152 1313 77.05 99% 99% 99% 99% reverse-complement source secs mem gz busy cpu load VW Smalltalk Bad Output Node js 4.10 1,340,368 1480 8.58 52% 56% 73% 28% regex-redux source secs mem gz busy cpu load No program contribute your program Node js 9.53 756,856 668 12.74 71% 24% 13% 26% VW Smalltalk VisualWorks® 8.3 Aug 19 2017 Node js v14.2.0 all VW Smalltalk programs & measurements all Node js programs & measurements