JavaScript is 10-37x faster out of the box without any imports async function time_tasks(count=100) { async function nop_task() { return perf

JavaScript is 10-37x faster out of the box without any imports async function time_tasks(count=100) { async function nop_task() { return performance.now(); } const start = performance.now() let tasks = Array(count).map(nop_task) await Promise.all(tasks) const elapsed = performance.now() - start return elapsed / 1e3 } for (let count = 100000; count < 1000000 + 1; count += 100000) { const ct = await time_tasks(count) console.log(`${count}: ${1 / (ct / count)} tasks/sec`) } Outputs (Python 3.11, Bun 0.5.1): % bun textual.ts 100000: 3767797.000743159 tasks/sec 200000: 9001406.4697609 tasks/sec 300000: 8281002.001242148 tasks/sec 400000: 10038491.340232708 tasks/sec 500000: 8976653.913474608 tasks/sec 600000: 10437550.828698047 tasks/sec 700000: 9443895.154523576 tasks/sec 800000: 11021991.118011119 tasks/sec 900000: 9790550.215324111 tasks/sec 1000000: 10263937.143648934 tasks/sec % python3 textual.py 100,000 tasks 303,063 tasks per/s 200,000 tasks 270,058 tasks per/s 300,000 tasks 271,621 tasks per/s 400,000 tasks 261,945 tasks per/s 500,000 tasks 251,070 tasks per/s 600,000 tasks 272,520 tasks per/s 700,000 tasks 250,977 tasks per/s 800,000 tasks 253,131 tasks per/s 900,000 tasks 244,696 tasks per/s 1,000,000 tasks 266,061 tasks per/s