Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS C benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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.)

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 1.0ms 0.1ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 1.c 1.3ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1.c 1.4ms 0.1ms 2.0MB 0ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
codon 1.py 4.1ms 0.5ms 5.5MB 0ms 0ms codon 0.17.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 246ms 1.0ms 1.5MB 233ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 5.c 298ms 0.7ms 1.5MB 290ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 8-i.c 301ms 1.9ms 2.1MB 290ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 311ms 1.5ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 311ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 315ms 0.3ms 2.1MB 300ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 315ms 1.0ms 1.5MB 303ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 2.c 317ms 2.6ms 2.1MB 307ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 8-i.c 332ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 320ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
codon 1.py 1371ms 99ms 7.9MB 1357ms 0ms codon 0.17.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 26ms 0.1ms 1.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 5.c 32ms 0.2ms 1.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 8-i.c 32ms 0.6ms 2.1MB 23ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 33ms 0.3ms 1.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 2.c 33ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 23ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 33ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 27ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5.c 34ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 8-i.c 35ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 2.c 36ms 3.1ms 2.1MB 27ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
codon 1.py 135ms 1.9ms 7.9MB 123ms 0ms codon 0.17.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 257ms 1.9ms 40.9MB 240ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1.c 267ms 2.2ms 41.0MB 247ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 1.c 292ms 2.5ms 40.3MB 273ms 3ms zigcc 0.13.0
codon 1.py 368ms 5.0ms 46.5MB 357ms 0ms codon 0.17.0
codon 2.py 848ms 3.7ms 100.0MB 830ms 13ms codon 0.17.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 49ms 1.7ms 11.6MB 40ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1.c 51ms 2.0ms 11.7MB 37ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 1.c 54ms 2.1ms 11.0MB 40ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
codon 1.py 71ms 1.3ms 15.3MB 60ms 0ms codon 0.17.0
codon 2.py 198ms 1.5ms 25.9MB 187ms 3ms codon 0.17.0