Kotlin VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sat Nov 16 2024, 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
kotlin 1.kt 475ms 17ms 579.4MB 547ms 97ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 1-m.js 903ms 17ms 180.1MB 1383ms 233ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1-m.js 1225ms 4.9ms 273.0MB 2117ms 157ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 3085ms 72ms 252.5MB 5140ms 680ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 96ms 1.8ms 78.3MB 77ms 23ms bun 1.1.34
kotlin 1.kt 102ms 2.5ms 160.0MB 107ms 27ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 1.js 127ms 2.5ms 82.5MB 130ms 23ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 266ms 3.6ms 32.5MB 413ms 67ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 1610ms 26ms 94.0MB 1693ms 57ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 2-m.kt 1840ms 308ms 239.6MB 6827ms 123ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 1.js 2129ms 15ms 100.5MB 2137ms 73ms bun 1.1.34
kotlin 1.kt 2169ms 43ms 219.8MB 3023ms 67ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt timeout 0.0ms 14.7MB 6043ms 460ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2-m.kt timeout 0.0ms 73.0MB 19093ms 107ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 156ms 2.8ms 75.9MB 143ms 20ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 180ms 2.2ms 85.6MB 190ms 40ms bun 1.1.34
kotlin 2-m.kt 395ms 5.2ms 34.8MB 1433ms 40ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 1-m.kt 464ms 3.6ms 73.7MB 1043ms 47ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt 674ms 5.0ms 10.9MB 807ms 53ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2-m.kt 883ms 143ms 98.4MB 3080ms 77ms kotlin/jvm 21

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 2.3ms 0.2ms 4.7MB 0ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.6ms 31.4MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 30ms 0.1ms 52.1MB 10ms 10ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1.kt 55ms 4.0ms 47.5MB 58ms 14ms kotlin/jvm 21

http-server

Input: 3000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.bun.js 393ms 25ms 68.7MB 123ms 420ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1-m.js 2057ms 1804ms 249.5MB 3413ms 1893ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 2-m.kt 4705ms 97ms 372.4MB 14620ms 2427ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt timeout 0.0ms 382.6MB 16320ms 2680ms kotlin/jvm 21

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.bun.js 174ms 8.4ms 54.1MB 40ms 87ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 408ms 0.2ms 85.6MB 330ms 137ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 2187ms 374ms 258.9MB 6430ms 637ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 2-m.kt 2195ms 62ms 249.1MB 5710ms 610ms kotlin/jvm 21

json-serde

Input: sample 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 86ms 4.3ms 65.6MB 67ms 3ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 110ms 1.2ms 79.3MB 100ms 13ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 893ms 18ms 206.2MB 2427ms 80ms kotlin/jvm 21

Input: canada 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 380ms 1.5ms 206.5MB 343ms 77ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 682ms 2.1ms 206.8MB 777ms 90ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 2296ms 21ms 773.1MB 4957ms 173ms kotlin/jvm 21

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1-m.kt 179ms 2.4ms 96.4MB 293ms 27ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 2-m.kt 193ms 1.1ms 103.4MB 407ms 40ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 2.kt 304ms 3.0ms 7.9MB 427ms 13ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
javascript 2.js 311ms 2.2ms 66.6MB 307ms 7ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1.kt 515ms 18ms 7.8MB 623ms 3ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
javascript 1.js 552ms 1.4ms 64.7MB 533ms 13ms node 23.1.0
javascript 2.js 638ms 4.6ms 121.9MB 677ms 63ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 895ms 5.4ms 106.0MB 977ms 80ms bun 1.1.34

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 2-m.kt 304ms 11ms 212.8MB 533ms 40ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt 325ms 2.9ms 202.8MB 440ms 27ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 2.js 837ms 0.9ms 72.4MB 820ms 20ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 2.kt 898ms 0.8ms 7.8MB 1297ms 43ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
javascript 1.js 1581ms 6.1ms 71.6MB 1560ms 13ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1.kt 1591ms 14ms 7.9MB 1973ms 20ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
javascript 2.js 1815ms 3.6ms 122.4MB 1950ms 77ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 2584ms 10ms 106.1MB 2877ms 143ms bun 1.1.34

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1-m.kt 140ms 3.1ms 90.2MB 267ms 27ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 2.kt 142ms 3.9ms 5.7MB 200ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2-m.kt 154ms 12ms 98.0MB 293ms 37ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 1.js 162ms 1.3ms 61.7MB 143ms 13ms node 23.1.0
javascript 2.js 165ms 1.4ms 60.3MB 157ms 3ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1.kt 170ms 6.0ms 5.7MB 210ms 3ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
javascript 1.js 326ms 3.6ms 114.6MB 360ms 67ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 2.js 348ms 4.1ms 125.6MB 360ms 57ms bun 1.1.34

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 350ms 2.1ms 679.4MB 383ms 77ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 1-m.js 510ms 32ms 138.8MB 643ms 143ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 528ms 2.4ms 134.4MB 600ms 70ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 1501ms 11ms 136.5MB 2307ms 327ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 121ms 1.5ms 86.4MB 100ms 33ms bun 1.1.34
kotlin 1.kt 127ms 2.6ms 206.6MB 150ms 40ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 1.js 157ms 2.6ms 102.4MB 157ms 37ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 314ms 24ms 40.5MB 453ms 73ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1n.kt 407ms 3.5ms 4.6MB 397ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 1.kt 443ms 2.0ms 49.1MB 483ms 17ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 6.js 454ms 4.7ms 59.9MB 437ms 7ms node 23.1.0
javascript 6.js 659ms 2.2ms 44.6MB 650ms 7ms bun 1.1.34

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1n.kt 45ms 1.6ms 4.6MB 33ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
javascript 6.js 77ms 1.1ms 60.1MB 70ms 3ms node 23.1.0
javascript 6.js 85ms 1.3ms 44.8MB 77ms 3ms bun 1.1.34
kotlin 1.kt 118ms 1.0ms 49.6MB 160ms 17ms kotlin/jvm 21

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 3780ms 66ms 353.7MB 4587ms 93ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 3.js timeout 0.0ms 92.0MB 4980ms 23ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1n.kt timeout 0.0ms 7.6MB 6390ms 297ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2n.kt timeout 0.0ms 8.2MB 4990ms 167ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1-m.kt 992ms 31ms 352.8MB 1700ms 87ms kotlin/jvm 21
javascript 3.js 1123ms 6.1ms 74.5MB 1103ms 17ms node 23.1.0
kotlin 1n.kt timeout 0.0ms 7.3MB 6427ms 263ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2n.kt timeout 0.0ms 8.2MB 5007ms 150ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt timeout 0.0ms 171.4MB 5383ms 43ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1n.kt timeout 0.0ms 279.0MB 5193ms 690ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1-m.kt 816ms 17ms 133.5MB 1237ms 33ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1n.kt 3103ms 11ms 67.1MB 3820ms 7ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 2575ms 7.4ms 63.8MB 2587ms 13ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 2791ms 20ms 83.9MB 2820ms 40ms bun 1.1.34
kotlin 1.kt 3097ms 63ms 230.9MB 3970ms 60ms kotlin/jvm 21

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 689ms 7.5ms 61.7MB 687ms 20ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 907ms 143ms 82.9MB 913ms 27ms bun 1.1.34
kotlin 1-m.kt 971ms 46ms 231.8MB 1847ms 70ms kotlin/jvm 21