Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

JavaScript Computation Benchmark

About JavaScript

Paradigm

Object-Oriented, Imperative, Functional

Execution

Interpreted

Typing

Dynamic

Null Safety

NO

Memory Management

Garbage Collection

JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic programming language that conforms to the ECMAScript specification and has become a core technology of the World Wide Web. It enables interactive web elements and is supported by all major browsers without plugins. JavaScript can also be used on the server-side through Node.js for developing network applications.

Benchmarks

This benchmark tests how fast a programming language can perform mathematical computations without any I/O or memory allocation. We are using the Leibniz formula to approximate the value of PI.

OS: LinuxCPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 325Last Updated: 2026-10-14

Language	Time How long does it take to approximate PI? (lower is better)	Memory How much memory (RAM) does the program use? (lower is better)	Build Time Fetching dependencies + compiling, excluding SDK setup (lower is better)
JavaScript (Node.js v22)	3.24 s	66.4 MB	1.09 s
JavaScript (Node.js v20)	1.77 s	56.1 MB	1.08 s
JavaScript (Bun v1)	3.86 s	45.3 MB	1.30 s

Popular languages

How does JavaScript compare to other languages?

Language	Time How long does it take to approximate PI? (lower is better, log scale)	Memory How much memory (RAM) does the program use? (lower is better)	Build Time Fetching dependencies + compiling, excluding SDK setup (lower is better)
C (GCC)	1.00 s	2.2 MB	2.13 s
Rust	1.00 s	2.9 MB	4.12 s
Java (Temurin)	1.00 s	65.9 MB	14.84 s
C# (.NET)	1.16 s	34.8 MB	4.49 s
Go	1.36 s	3.8 MB	6.18 s
JavaScript (Node.js)	3.24 s	66.4 MB	1.09 s
JavaScript (Bun)	3.86 s	45.3 MB	1.30 s
Ruby	67.47 s	17.8 MB	1.29 s
Python	99.28 s	11.1 MB	1.28 s