Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Chapel VS Zig 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
zig 1.zig 1822ms 94ms 49.0MB 1787ms 20ms zig 0.14.0
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

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 154ms 1.6ms 7.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
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

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
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
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
zig 1.zig 2250ms 2.7ms 2.5MB 2220ms 13ms zig 0.14.0

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
zig 1.zig 380ms 1.3ms 1.9MB 360ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 89ms 0.3ms 1.0MB 80ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
chapel 5-m.chpl 104ms 1.2ms 28.4MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 11ms 0.8ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.0MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 499ms 8.5ms 26.3MB 477ms 7ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 66ms 2.2ms 15.4MB 53ms 3ms zig 0.14.0
chapel 3-m.chpl 112ms 0.7ms 76.9MB 197ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 199ms 0.7ms 1.0MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 279ms 0.3ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 316ms 1.3ms 1.1MB 303ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
chapel 2.chpl 319ms 3.7ms 28.8MB 313ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 22ms 0.3ms 1.0MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.2ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.4ms 1.1MB 30ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 2465ms 18ms 2.2MB 2437ms 13ms zig 0.14.0

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
zig 1.zig 569ms 2.6ms 1.6MB 560ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

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

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

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
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
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
chapel 1-m.chpl 1917ms 12ms 28.9MB 3807ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 3705ms 29ms 1.4MB 3693ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
chapel 1.chpl 3719ms 32ms 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 489ms 4.6ms 29.0MB 953ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 922ms 1.2ms 1.3MB 910ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
chapel 1.chpl 934ms 6.5ms 28.8MB 927ms 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 2.1ms 28.9MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 234ms 0.8ms 1.3MB 223ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
chapel 1.chpl 248ms 6.1ms 28.8MB 243ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0