Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS Perl 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.)

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.8ms 0.4ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
codon 1-m.py 11ms 0.6ms 9.0MB 20ms 0ms codon 0.18.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1.py 1453ms 222ms 9.0MB 1763ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4990ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1-m.py 174ms 3.5ms 8.9MB 483ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
perl 2.pl 2812ms 65ms 6.1MB 2800ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1-m.py 419ms 4.2ms 47.6MB 723ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
codon 2.py 1525ms 10ms 100.8MB 1833ms 17ms codon 0.18.2

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1-m.py 127ms 2.6ms 18.5MB 433ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
codon 2-m.py 394ms 3.1ms 27.1MB 703ms 3ms codon 0.18.2