Go programs versus Node.js by benchmark task performance fannkuch-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 14.72 1,540 900 58.65 100% 100% 99% 100% Node.js 89.63 30,960 473 89.61 0% 100% 0% 1% k-nucleotide source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 12.77 148,052 1722 47.35 87% 97% 94% 95% Node.js 61.24 1,739,992 935 137.09 80% 75% 95% 71% fasta source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 2.08 3,640 1358 5.69 84% 66% 70% 56% Node.js 9.80 34,804 1785 9.82 100% 1% 0% 0% reverse-complement source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 4.00 824,356 611 4.16 1% 35% 68% 2% Node.js 16.66 706,256 1103 17.71 71% 51% 40% 48% spectral-norm source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 3.94 2,344 548 15.71 100% 100% 100% 100% Node.js 15.79 31,900 381 15.79 100% 1% 0% 0% mandelbrot source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 5.48 30,912 905 21.79 99% 99% 99% 100% Node.js 17.72 613,608 748 63.70 85% 94% 99% 83% binary-trees source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 28.80 434,632 654 109.58 94% 95% 95% 97% Node.js 45.39 658,324 440 81.91 37% 39% 59% 46% n-body source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 21.37 1,536 1310 21.38 0% 0% 100% 0% Node.js 26.61 33,152 1297 26.61 100% 0% 0% 1% regex-redux source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 28.21 323,820 802 59.87 69% 46% 50% 48% Node.js 4.22 596,420 432 4.24 100% 0% 0% 1% pidigits source secs mem gz cpu cpu load Go 0.13 ? 603 0.13 0% 7% 0% 93% Node.js Bad Output Go go version go1.10 linux/amd64 Node.js v9.4.0 vs C vs C++ vs Java vs JavaScript vs Python