Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS Ruby 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
codon 1-m.py 11ms 0.6ms 9.0MB 20ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
ruby 1.rb 35ms 0.4ms 142.2MB 14ms 28ms truffleruby 24.2.0
ruby 1.rb 52ms 3.5ms 12.9MB 34ms 2ms ruby 3.4.2
ruby 1.rb 53ms 0.9ms 13.0MB 34ms 6ms ruby/yjit 3.4.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 2.rb 830ms 8.7ms 322.7MB 1090ms 113ms truffleruby 24.2.0
codon 1.py 1453ms 222ms 9.0MB 1763ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
ruby 2.rb timeout 0.0ms 12.9MB 4987ms 0ms ruby 3.4.2
ruby 2.rb timeout 0.0ms 13.5MB 4980ms 3ms ruby/yjit 3.4.2

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
ruby 2-m.rb 310ms 2.6ms 310.1MB 543ms 113ms truffleruby 24.2.0
ruby 2.rb 1066ms 0.5ms 13.5MB 1047ms 3ms ruby/yjit 3.4.2
ruby 2.rb 2789ms 66ms 12.9MB 2773ms 0ms ruby 3.4.2

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
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 325.4MB 4847ms 140ms ruby 3.4.2
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 327.0MB 4853ms 137ms ruby/yjit 3.4.2
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 709.5MB 5073ms 150ms truffleruby 24.2.0

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
ruby 1-m.rb 1735ms 26ms 487.2MB 2477ms 167ms truffleruby 24.2.0
ruby 1.rb 3439ms 35ms 131.8MB 3347ms 77ms ruby/yjit 3.4.2
ruby 1.rb 4550ms 60ms 131.1MB 4463ms 77ms ruby 3.4.2