Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Nim VS D 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
nim 2.nim 951ms 22ms 34.6MB 933ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 2.nim 1044ms 46ms 34.9MB 1030ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 1796ms 23ms 312.6MB 1763ms 37ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 2658ms 12ms 314.7MB 2843ms 40ms dmd 2.110.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 91ms 1.0ms 5.5MB 80ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 2.nim 92ms 1.1ms 5.8MB 80ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 163ms 2.1ms 209.9MB 137ms 13ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 229ms 3.0ms 212.0MB 200ms 10ms dmd 2.110.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d timeout 0.0ms 18.0MB 4970ms 17ms dmd 2.110.0
d 1.d timeout 0.0ms 16.5MB 4967ms 20ms ldc2 1.40.1
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 553.5MB 2527ms 2017ms nim 2.2.2
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 555.8MB 2507ms 2037ms nim/clang 2.2.2

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 1026ms 5.0ms 12.3MB 1000ms 13ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 1314ms 5.4ms 14.5MB 1293ms 10ms dmd 2.110.0
nim 1.nim 4347ms 12ms 519.8MB 2150ms 1773ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 4379ms 10ms 519.4MB 2190ms 1760ms nim 2.2.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 189ms 2.4ms 1.5MB 177ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 193ms 1.0ms 49.2MB 180ms 3ms ldc2 1.40.1
nim 2.nim 237ms 2.8ms 1.8MB 227ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 553ms 0.6ms 1.8MB 447ms 90ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 579ms 2.1ms 1.5MB 477ms 87ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 624ms 3.3ms 49.1MB 613ms 3ms dmd 2.110.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 21ms 0.0ms 1.5MB 10ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 24ms 0.4ms 11.1MB 17ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
nim 2.nim 26ms 0.2ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 59ms 1.2ms 1.8MB 40ms 10ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 61ms 0.5ms 1.5MB 40ms 7ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 67ms 0.6ms 13.1MB 60ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 1.1ms 0.0ms 1.5MB 0ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 1.2ms 0.0ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 1.8ms 0.1ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 2.2ms 0.3ms 5.0MB 0ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 111ms 1.6ms 1.6MB 100ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 2.nim 113ms 2.6ms 1.4MB 103ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 129ms 1.6ms 5.9MB 120ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 176ms 0.6ms 7.8MB 167ms 3ms dmd 2.110.0
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 1.3MB 4990ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 1.5MB 4990ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 324ms 1.9ms 1.6MB 313ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 2.nim 326ms 1.9ms 1.6MB 320ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 375ms 1.9ms 5.9MB 363ms 13ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 513ms 1.8ms 7.8MB 497ms 17ms dmd 2.110.0
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 1.3MB 4990ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 1.5MB 4990ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 50ms 1.1ms 1.3MB 40ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 2.nim 50ms 0.7ms 1.6MB 40ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 57ms 0.4ms 5.9MB 50ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 79ms 1.4ms 8.2MB 70ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0
nim 1.nim 440ms 2.2ms 1.5MB 430ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 481ms 0.8ms 1.3MB 470ms 0ms nim 2.2.2

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 294ms 0.6ms 7.1MB 280ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
nim 1.nim 388ms 0.9ms 4.7MB 380ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 579ms 3.4ms 4.4MB 570ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 2187ms 34ms 9.0MB 2173ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 15ms 0.1ms 3.0MB 10ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
nim 1.nim 19ms 0.3ms 1.9MB 10ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 26ms 0.4ms 1.6MB 20ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 96ms 6.0ms 4.6MB 83ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 534ms 2.9ms 34.6MB 517ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 631ms 20ms 34.9MB 613ms 3ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 962ms 3.8ms 312.7MB 933ms 30ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 1727ms 3.9ms 314.7MB 1863ms 40ms dmd 2.110.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 114ms 2.7ms 9.6MB 100ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 135ms 3.0ms 9.9MB 123ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 194ms 1.6ms 312.6MB 160ms 20ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 334ms 0.6ms 314.7MB 303ms 23ms dmd 2.110.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 319ms 1.2ms 1.8MB 310ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 2.nim 342ms 0.5ms 2.0MB 330ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 361ms 1.4ms 2.9MB 350ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 2.d 364ms 3.8ms 2.9MB 353ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 684ms 1.4ms 4.6MB 673ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0
d 2.d 2033ms 2.7ms 4.6MB 2023ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 34ms 0.6ms 1.8MB 27ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 2.nim 37ms 1.4ms 2.0MB 30ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 2.d 38ms 0.3ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 39ms 0.2ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 80ms 15ms 4.6MB 70ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0
d 2.d 207ms 1.5ms 4.6MB 193ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 271ms 8.1ms 41.5MB 257ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 288ms 1.2ms 45.1MB 277ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
nim 1.nim 298ms 2.6ms 41.8MB 287ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 360ms 0.3ms 77.3MB 340ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0
d 2.d 842ms 0.8ms 49.1MB 823ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 2.d 1165ms 0.8ms 48.7MB 1150ms 7ms dmd 2.110.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 51ms 0.5ms 11.5MB 40ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 57ms 0.8ms 11.8MB 50ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 59ms 1.2ms 12.9MB 50ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 76ms 0.3ms 27.2MB 67ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0
d 2.d 207ms 0.4ms 17.0MB 193ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 2.d 293ms 2.4ms 19.0MB 280ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 3.d 577ms 2.9ms 171.9MB 760ms 17ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 3.d 1297ms 1.7ms 172.8MB 1497ms 13ms dmd 2.110.0
nim 1.nim 1633ms 8.8ms 164.1MB 1603ms 13ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 1703ms 20ms 163.9MB 1670ms 20ms nim 2.2.2

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 3.d 64ms 4.3ms 25.1MB 77ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 3.d 137ms 3.3ms 30.4MB 150ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0
nim 1.nim 173ms 2.3ms 20.9MB 160ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
nim 1.nim 178ms 2.0ms 20.6MB 163ms 0ms nim 2.2.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 3590ms 1.4ms 1.6MB 3580ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 3594ms 3.1ms 3.9MB 3583ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
nim 1.nim 3596ms 7.0ms 1.9MB 3583ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 3637ms 18ms 8.3MB 3630ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 899ms 0.8ms 1.5MB 890ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 901ms 0.5ms 3.4MB 890ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
nim 1.nim 901ms 1.6ms 1.3MB 890ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 923ms 4.7ms 5.3MB 913ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 227ms 0.3ms 1.5MB 220ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.2
d 1.d 228ms 0.9ms 3.1MB 220ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
nim 1.nim 229ms 1.2ms 1.3MB 220ms 0ms nim 2.2.2
d 1.d 233ms 1.6ms 4.9MB 223ms 0ms dmd 2.110.0