This project is designed to do a comparison of the performance of the following languages in the very basics of mathematical operations:

• Node.js
• Ruby
• Python 3+
• GCC (unoptimized and optimized C)

Prerequisite is to have gcc, ruby, python, and node installed on your path.

The code written is designed specifically to test a language's ability to handle loop unrolling, statement aggregation, and optimizing function calling in the most basic of mathematical operations like addition, multiplication and binary operations.

Results (2020)

----- Node Version -----
v10.16.0
----- GCC Version -----
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
----- Python Version -----
Python 3.8.1
----- Ruby Version -----
ruby 2.7.0p0 (2019-12-25 revision 647ee6f091) [x86_64-darwin18]
1) C Unoptimized -----
gcc for.c: 
127760038
3054 ms
2) C Optimized -----
gcc -Wall -O2 for.c
127760038
281 ms
3) Node -----
node for.js
99687396727.99696
1066 ms
4) Ruby -----
ruby for.rb
116474177.0
34753.813 ms
5) Python -----
python for.py
296265479632.99695
59654 ms

Run all tests

./run-all.sh

Running native C (no optimization)

gcc for.c
./a.out

Running native C (with optimization)

gcc -Wall -O2 for.c
./a.out

Running Node.JS

node for.js

Running Ruby

ruby for.rb

Running Python

python for.py