The main flaw in this benchmark is that it's too little work, so the javascript numbers are very close to node's startup time alone. Running 100 iterations giv

The main flaw in this benchmark is that it's too little work, so the javascript numbers are very close to node's startup time alone. Running 100 iterations gives you a much better idea of actual performance (JS is over 10x slower) but then you need to think about what compiler optimizations are being applied.