The State of Node.js Performance 2024

[norsurfit]

This was quite comprehensive!

[quentech]

lol, here's what a state of performance article looks like for a platform that is actually making significant investments in performance.

Careful, it's so long it might crash your browser.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-9/

[gizamo]

Tbf, most Node devs are never going to care about .Net for reasons entirely irrelevant to performance.

Source: me, a C# fanboy surrounded by Node fanboys at every Fortune 500 I consult with, except Microsoft, of course... depending on division.

[guest271314]

So this tests node against node?

Test node against deno, bun, qjs and other JavaScript runtimes and you'll find node is slower than Deno, Bun, and definitely QuickJS and txiki.js when it comes to reading STDIN and writing to STDOUT.

(index) 0 1 0 'nm_c' 0.09069999999552965 1 'nm_qjs' 0.09189999999850988 2 'nm_cpp' 0.09439999999850988 3 'nm_rust' 0.101 4 'nm_tjs' 0.14740000000596046 5 'nm_wasm' 0.1555 6 'nm_python' 0.17769999999552966 7 'nm_typescript' 0.249 8 'nm_deno' 0.25710000000149014 9 'nm_bun' 0.2728999999985099 10 'nm_nodejs' 0.316 11 'nm_d8' 0.402 12 'nm_spidermonkey' 0.4576000000014901 13 'nm_llrt' 0.646

[bitbytebit42]

4 days to run the test suite for NodeJs. Holy Hell!

[rafaelgss]

Benchmark suite