Most of the performance overhead of k6 OSS is due to JS

- Last Updated: [[2020-12-19]] - [[Go is built with performance in mind]] [[k6 (tool)]] - Source: [[Mihail Stoykov]] - [[Mihail on Go performance vs Java]] - A lot of the time and memory it takes for k6 OSS to run can be attributed to `stripCoreJS`. Mihail has been attempting to quantify just that: - ![](assets/1621807267_58.png) - Source: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/pull/1732#issuecomment-731071713