Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

OCaml VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sat Mar 29 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
wasm 5.rs 1813ms 71ms 33.1MB 1793ms 7ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1852ms 15ms 49.3MB 1827ms 13ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 1860ms 23ms 33.3MB 1840ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 3076ms 70ms 157.2MB 2993ms 73ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 171ms 3.6ms 19.2MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 180ms 2.7ms 19.1MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 180ms 4.1ms 21.1MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 223ms 5.5ms 19.1MB 203ms 3ms ocaml 5.3.0

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 2920ms 14ms 4.9MB 2910ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 4164ms 21ms 16.8MB 4147ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 246ms 2.4ms 4.9MB 237ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 348ms 2.4ms 17.4MB 337ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 236ms 1.4ms 17.3MB 217ms 3ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 6.ml 347ms 0.6ms 24.8MB 333ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 32ms 0.4ms 17.6MB 20ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 6.ml 39ms 0.3ms 7.3MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 1.9ms 0.1ms 5.0MB 0ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 6.7ms 0.5ms 17.2MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 89ms 0.8ms 17.3MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 185ms 5.6ms 6.4MB 173ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 250ms 1.4ms 16.9MB 237ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 537ms 16ms 6.6MB 527ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 48ms 1.8ms 17.4MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 76ms 0.7ms 5.9MB 70ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 927ms 58ms 41.1MB 910ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 1097ms 8.4ms 70.3MB 1057ms 30ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 2087ms 30ms 91.7MB 2037ms 33ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 149ms 1.0ms 21.7MB 133ms 7ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 197ms 2.3ms 23.3MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 2.ml 362ms 2.4ms 27.7MB 343ms 3ms ocaml 5.3.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 377ms 1.5ms 5.3MB 367ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 411ms 2.4ms 17.1MB 400ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 583ms 2.8ms 17.0MB 570ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 40ms 1.1ms 5.2MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 49ms 0.6ms 17.0MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 66ms 1.3ms 17.2MB 53ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 379ms 5.8ms 22.0MB 367ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 1.rs 511ms 9.4ms 56.3MB 493ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 961ms 7.1ms 552.4MB 900ms 47ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 1888ms 3.0ms 18.9MB 1877ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 96ms 2.9ms 27.1MB 83ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 98ms 0.4ms 18.3MB 90ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 191ms 10ms 142.3MB 167ms 10ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 465ms 0.7ms 9.1MB 457ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml timeout 0.0ms 474.1MB 4813ms 173ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 550ms 3.3ms 57.1MB 517ms 20ms ocaml 5.3.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 3601ms 3.0ms 16.9MB 3587ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 2.ml 4568ms 13ms 6.4MB 4557ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 7.rs 4896ms 5.3ms 16.9MB 4883ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 910ms 5.9ms 17.4MB 897ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 2.ml 1153ms 6.9ms 6.1MB 1143ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 7.rs 1232ms 2.6ms 17.1MB 1220ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 236ms 2.5ms 16.7MB 223ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 2.ml 290ms 2.8ms 5.2MB 280ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 7.rs 315ms 1.2ms 17.2MB 300ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0