Sample app to prove that JavaScript is faster than C

How to benchmark C app

gcc -Wall -O3 -flto hello.c -o hello
time ./hello

How to benchmark JS app

time node ./hello.js

Results

• C, seconds: 37.762 total
• JS, seconds: 36.996 total

Tested on MacBook Air (13-inch, M1, 2020), MacOS version 12.6 (21G115), 8 GB RAM Node.js v16.13.1 GCC Apple clang version 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.102)