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build-time-race-benchmark-2026

Build time race: Node.js vs Python vs Go vs Rust — clean compile/build time comparison across package managers and toolchains.

benchmarkbuild-timenodejspythongorust

Overview

Measures clean build times for equivalent applications across four ecosystems. Tests both cold builds (no cache) and incremental builds to simulate real-world CI pipelines.

Results (cold build, seconds)

| Stack | Toolchain | Cold | Incremental | |---|---|---|---| | Go | go build | 2.1s | 0.3s | | Rust | cargo build --release | 28.4s | 4.2s | | Node.js | npm install + tsc | 12.8s | 1.1s | | Python | pip install | 8.5s | 0.8s |

Usage

./bench.sh --clean --runs 5