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Chapel VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon May 19 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 983ms 44ms 182.9MB 1513ms 227ms bun 1.2.13
javascript 1.js 1066ms 5.1ms 468.4MB 1000ms 220ms node 24.0.2
chapel 4.chpl 1952ms 9.9ms 62.3MB 1943ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2127ms 36ms 62.3MB 2120ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 102ms 0.9ms 77.4MB 83ms 23ms bun 1.2.13
javascript 1.js 130ms 2.5ms 80.7MB 130ms 27ms node 24.0.2
chapel 4.chpl 184ms 1.8ms 30.3MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 186ms 1.6ms 32.3MB 183ms 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 1619ms 9.4ms 188.9MB 1593ms 103ms node 24.0.2
chapel 1-m.chpl 2280ms 43ms 659.8MB 4437ms 87ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 2477ms 8.3ms 99.5MB 2507ms 57ms bun 1.2.13

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 158ms 3.0ms 74.0MB 143ms 23ms node 24.0.2
javascript 1.js 198ms 1.8ms 85.0MB 220ms 30ms bun 1.2.13
chapel 1-m.chpl 206ms 4.4ms 630.1MB 320ms 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 71ms 1.6ms 32.5MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 285ms 5.4ms 66.5MB 297ms 27ms node 24.0.2
javascript 1.js 520ms 3.2ms 75.8MB 493ms 20ms bun 1.2.13

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 33ms 3.0ms 30.5MB 30ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 127ms 2.1ms 62.6MB 113ms 17ms node 24.0.2
javascript 1.js 499ms 1.6ms 65.8MB 480ms 17ms bun 1.2.13

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 105ms 0.9ms 28.4MB 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 22ms 2.1ms 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 11ms 0.3ms 28.8MB 0ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.6ms 31.9MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.13
javascript 1.js 32ms 0.5ms 50.0MB 16ms 8ms node 24.0.2

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 749ms 3.1ms 86.9MB 1420ms 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 115ms 1.4ms 77.0MB 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 4.1ms 28.9MB 317ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6.js 458ms 3.2ms 58.0MB 443ms 10ms node 24.0.2
javascript 6.js 604ms 7.0ms 44.5MB 603ms 3ms bun 1.2.13

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 45ms 0.3ms 28.9MB 40ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6.js 80ms 1.6ms 58.2MB 70ms 7ms node 24.0.2
javascript 6.js 82ms 2.8ms 44.5MB 77ms 3ms bun 1.2.13

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 445ms 2.1ms 30.4MB 440ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 3.js 4622ms 14ms 122.3MB 4573ms 47ms node 24.0.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 115ms 0.6ms 30.4MB 110ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 3.js 1012ms 8.0ms 73.2MB 993ms 13ms node 24.0.2

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1396ms 9.0ms 220.1MB 1353ms 37ms 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 2.2ms 48.9MB 140ms 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 1184ms 16ms 29.1MB 1177ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 2584ms 16ms 61.1MB 2590ms 10ms node 24.0.2
javascript 1.js 2875ms 42ms 82.4MB 2890ms 57ms bun 1.2.13

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 315ms 8.4ms 29.1MB 310ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 687ms 3.9ms 58.5MB 697ms 10ms node 24.0.2
javascript 1.js 746ms 8.0ms 82.4MB 747ms 30ms bun 1.2.13

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1912ms 1.5ms 28.9MB 3800ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 2184ms 8.5ms 118.8MB 8193ms 60ms node 24.0.2
chapel 1.chpl 3730ms 9.2ms 28.8MB 3720ms 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 1.7ms 28.8MB 960ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 663ms 3.7ms 117.6MB 2293ms 53ms node 24.0.2
chapel 1.chpl 940ms 3.7ms 28.8MB 933ms 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 0.9ms 28.9MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 249ms 2.0ms 28.8MB 243ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 269ms 2.4ms 112.1MB 823ms 50ms node 24.0.2