Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Chapel VS Acton benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Jul 01 2025, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][4 cores] AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor (Model 1)

* -m in a file name stands for multi-threading or multi-processing

* -i in a file name stands for direct intrinsics usage. (Usage of simd intrinsics via libraries is not counted)

* -ffi in a file name stands for non-stdlib FFI usage

* (You may find time < time(user) + time(sys) for some non-parallelized programs, the overhead is from GC or JIT compiler, which are allowed to take advantage of multi-cores as that's more close to real-world scenarios.)

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 4.chpl 1970ms 8.4ms 62.3MB 1960ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2062ms 35ms 62.3MB 2057ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 5903ms 87ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 188ms 2.0ms 32.3MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 4.chpl 196ms 20ms 32.3MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
acton 1.act 825ms 24ms 12.1MB 950ms 73ms actonc 0.26.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 2288ms 97ms 769.4MB 4450ms 97ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 211ms 14ms 725.6MB 333ms 60ms chpl 1.31.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 72ms 0.4ms 32.5MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
acton 1.act 227ms 8.3ms 8.0MB 210ms 30ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 34ms 0.6ms 30.5MB 30ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
acton 1.act 84ms 19ms 5.9MB 70ms 10ms actonc 0.26.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 108ms 3.0ms 28.4MB 193ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5.chpl 21ms 1.4ms 28.4MB 20ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.5ms 0.3ms 4.3MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.26.0
chapel 1.chpl 11ms 0.4ms 28.8MB 0ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 789ms 57ms 87.0MB 1463ms 7ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 114ms 0.4ms 76.9MB 200ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 320ms 1.9ms 28.8MB 317ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 48ms 4.7ms 28.8MB 43ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 448ms 1.5ms 30.3MB 443ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
acton 1-m.act 3388ms 212ms 6.8MB 3370ms 2387ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 113ms 1.0ms 30.4MB 110ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
acton 1-m.act 948ms 42ms 6.1MB 900ms 703ms actonc 0.26.0

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1397ms 5.8ms 246.1MB 1347ms 40ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 160ms 1.0ms 48.9MB 147ms 10ms chpl 1.31.0

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 1189ms 8.0ms 29.1MB 1180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 310ms 1.9ms 29.2MB 303ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1930ms 12ms 28.9MB 3833ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 3728ms 14ms 28.8MB 3723ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 495ms 2.2ms 28.9MB 960ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 941ms 4.2ms 28.8MB 937ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 134ms 0.7ms 29.0MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 247ms 0.8ms 28.8MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0