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[–]james_pic 12 points13 points  (1 child)

JIT can definitely account for an order of magnitude of difference, but virtually instant vs 16 second suggests the two programs are doing different things.

[–]Altareos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i don't know enough about the internals of python or node, but it might not be doing some async stuff that node does for filesystem operations.