Benchmarks

ChadScript compiles to native ELF binaries via LLVM. No runtime, no JIT warmup, no cold start. See details.

Time to print 'Hello, World!' and exit. Average of 50 runs. Smaller = faster.

C

1.5ms

ChadScript

1.8ms

Go

3.5ms

Bun

18ms

Node.js

62ms

C

1.5ms

ChadScript

1.8ms

Go

3.5ms

Bun

18ms

Node.js

62ms

ChadScript only links what you use — a hello-world binary has near-zero startup overhead. Go must initialize its runtime and GC. Bun/Node bootstrap their JS engines.

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Reproduce: ./benchmarks/run.sh — Linux x86-64, single run, all runtimes on same machine.