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Chapel VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jun 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
javascript 1-m.js 907ms 13ms 181.8MB 1350ms 187ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 1049ms 5.1ms 469.9MB 970ms 217ms node 24.1.0
chapel 4.chpl 1954ms 6.5ms 62.3MB 1947ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2047ms 28ms 60.3MB 2040ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 100ms 1.6ms 77.6MB 80ms 27ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 123ms 1.2ms 80.3MB 127ms 20ms node 24.1.0
chapel 4.chpl 185ms 3.6ms 32.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 185ms 0.6ms 32.2MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 1597ms 7.0ms 189.2MB 1570ms 100ms node 24.1.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 2211ms 79ms 480.1MB 4320ms 70ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 2458ms 46ms 104.4MB 2503ms 70ms bun 1.2.15

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 158ms 0.8ms 74.8MB 143ms 27ms node 24.1.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 179ms 0.7ms 445.0MB 293ms 40ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 199ms 1.7ms 87.9MB 237ms 37ms bun 1.2.15

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 71ms 1.5ms 32.5MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 278ms 1.0ms 66.7MB 293ms 23ms node 24.1.0
javascript 1.js 517ms 2.3ms 76.2MB 493ms 17ms bun 1.2.15

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 33ms 2.6ms 30.5MB 30ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 120ms 1.1ms 62.8MB 110ms 13ms node 24.1.0
javascript 1.js 508ms 1.3ms 65.6MB 487ms 20ms bun 1.2.15

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 104ms 1.5ms 28.3MB 190ms 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 0.7ms 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
chapel 1.chpl 9.3ms 1.5ms 28.8MB 0ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 12ms 0.4ms 31.5MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 30ms 0.6ms 49.8MB 18ms 6ms node 24.1.0

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 747ms 5.4ms 87.2MB 1417ms 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 113ms 1.0ms 87.0MB 200ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 322ms 1.7ms 28.8MB 320ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6.js 456ms 3.2ms 57.9MB 447ms 7ms node 24.1.0
javascript 6.js 597ms 2.9ms 45.0MB 600ms 0ms bun 1.2.15

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 44ms 1.3ms 28.9MB 40ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6.js 78ms 2.2ms 58.2MB 67ms 7ms node 24.1.0
javascript 6.js 80ms 0.6ms 45.0MB 90ms 3ms bun 1.2.15

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 444ms 0.7ms 30.4MB 440ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 3.js 4837ms 44ms 121.8MB 4787ms 47ms node 24.1.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 113ms 1.8ms 30.4MB 110ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 3.js 1043ms 5.1ms 73.1MB 1020ms 17ms node 24.1.0

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1387ms 3.3ms 220.1MB 1343ms 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 163ms 3.8ms 49.0MB 143ms 13ms chpl 1.31.0

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 1181ms 6.5ms 29.1MB 1177ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 2575ms 7.6ms 62.2MB 2580ms 13ms node 24.1.0
javascript 1.js 2822ms 6.0ms 82.3MB 2837ms 43ms bun 1.2.15

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 307ms 4.2ms 29.1MB 303ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 686ms 6.9ms 58.8MB 690ms 10ms node 24.1.0
javascript 1.js 736ms 1.2ms 82.1MB 730ms 33ms bun 1.2.15

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1922ms 11ms 29.0MB 3817ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 2185ms 14ms 119.3MB 8240ms 53ms node 24.1.0
chapel 1.chpl 3716ms 4.8ms 28.8MB 3710ms 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 492ms 1.0ms 28.9MB 957ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 653ms 1.5ms 117.6MB 2320ms 57ms node 24.1.0
chapel 1.chpl 940ms 1.7ms 28.8MB 940ms 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 133ms 1.1ms 28.9MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 246ms 3.6ms 28.8MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 270ms 2.9ms 117.4MB 843ms 47ms node 24.1.0