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Chapel VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Mar 31 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
go 1.go 1214ms 12ms 55.0MB 1190ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
chapel 4.chpl 1962ms 44ms 60.3MB 1950ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2019ms 12ms 60.3MB 2010ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1-m.go 2372ms 13ms 46.1MB 5267ms 43ms go 1.24.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 115ms 1.5ms 5.6MB 107ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
chapel 4.chpl 185ms 1.2ms 32.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 188ms 2.8ms 32.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1-m.go 209ms 0.5ms 8.0MB 370ms 10ms go 1.24.1

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1-m.go 473ms 8.9ms 15.6MB 1833ms 3ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 723ms 8.5ms 269.4MB 670ms 37ms tinygo 0.37.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 2192ms 58ms 470.2MB 4273ms 73ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1-m.go 38ms 6.0ms 7.5MB 123ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 70ms 2.6ms 68.3MB 50ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 181ms 1.3ms 427.0MB 293ms 37ms chpl 1.31.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 71ms 3.7ms 32.4MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1.go 117ms 1.7ms 8.4MB 110ms 0ms go 1.24.1

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 32ms 1.2ms 30.5MB 30ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1.go 33ms 0.5ms 8.2MB 23ms 0ms go 1.24.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 104ms 1.2ms 28.4MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 3-m.go 124ms 1.1ms 7.5MB 373ms 0ms go 1.24.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 17ms 1.3ms 7.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.1
chapel 5.chpl 22ms 2.2ms 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
go 1.go 0.9ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.1
chapel 1.chpl 11ms 0.5ms 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
go 7-m.go 680ms 12ms 42.1MB 2393ms 30ms go 1.24.1
chapel 3-m.chpl 746ms 3.8ms 97.0MB 1413ms 10ms 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 112ms 0.7ms 76.9MB 197ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0
go 7-m.go 135ms 3.6ms 23.7MB 343ms 20ms go 1.24.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 319ms 3.7ms 28.8MB 313ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1.go 349ms 3.0ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 352ms 2.1ms 3.5MB 343ms 0ms go 1.24.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 37ms 0.1ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 38ms 0.7ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
chapel 2.chpl 45ms 0.9ms 28.9MB 40ms 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 442ms 11ms 30.3MB 437ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 8.go 1173ms 7.7ms 8.7MB 1157ms 0ms go 1.24.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 113ms 0.5ms 30.4MB 110ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 8.go 280ms 1.6ms 8.6MB 270ms 0ms go 1.24.1

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1382ms 4.7ms 222.1MB 1337ms 37ms chpl 1.31.0
go 3.go timeout 0.0ms 122.0MB 4987ms 47ms go 1.24.1
go 3.go timeout 0.0ms 136.3MB 4980ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 159ms 3.1ms 48.9MB 140ms 10ms chpl 1.31.0
go 3.go 1752ms 13ms 19.9MB 1737ms 20ms go 1.24.1
go 3.go 2259ms 19ms 27.6MB 2243ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 0-ffi.go 92ms 0.3ms 5.2MB 87ms 0ms go 1.24.1
chapel 1.chpl 1172ms 4.9ms 29.2MB 1167ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 0-ffi.go 25ms 0.7ms 5.2MB 20ms 0ms go 1.24.1
chapel 1.chpl 314ms 9.4ms 29.2MB 310ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 1911ms 17ms 4.3MB 7403ms 10ms go 1.24.1
chapel 1-m.chpl 1917ms 12ms 28.9MB 3807ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1.go 3659ms 12ms 5.6MB 3650ms 0ms go 1.24.1
chapel 1.chpl 3719ms 32ms 28.8MB 3710ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 0.5MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 481ms 0.6ms 5.5MB 1843ms 0ms go 1.24.1
chapel 1-m.chpl 489ms 4.6ms 29.0MB 953ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1.go 916ms 4.3ms 3.5MB 910ms 0ms go 1.24.1
chapel 1.chpl 934ms 6.5ms 28.8MB 927ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1.go 1397ms 0.4ms 0.5MB 1387ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 125ms 0.8ms 5.5MB 450ms 0ms go 1.24.1
chapel 1-m.chpl 134ms 2.1ms 28.9MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1.go 231ms 1.3ms 3.5MB 220ms 0ms go 1.24.1
chapel 1.chpl 248ms 6.1ms 28.8MB 243ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
go 1.go 352ms 0.6ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0