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Odin VS Nim benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Jun 23 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 825ms 37ms 34.9MB 807ms 7ms nim 2.2.4
nim 2.nim 999ms 22ms 34.7MB 980ms 7ms nim/clang 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 2344ms 32ms 49.5MB 2310ms 17ms odin 2024

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 77ms 1.9ms 5.5MB 67ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
nim 2.nim 93ms 2.8ms 5.8MB 83ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 218ms 1.9ms 7.5MB 207ms 0ms odin 2024

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.6MB 0ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 1.1ms 0.0ms 1.6MB 0ms 0ms odin 2024
nim 1.nim 1.1ms 0.0ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 113ms 2.8ms 1.8MB 107ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
nim 2.nim 116ms 1.5ms 1.4MB 110ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 148ms 2.9ms 1.6MB 140ms 0ms odin 2024
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 1.3MB 4990ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 1.5MB 4990ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 328ms 6.2ms 1.6MB 317ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
nim 2.nim 336ms 4.0ms 1.4MB 330ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 439ms 2.8ms 1.6MB 430ms 0ms odin 2024
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 1.3MB 4990ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 1.5MB 4990ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 48ms 0.0ms 1.8MB 40ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
nim 2.nim 50ms 0.4ms 1.3MB 40ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 68ms 1.3ms 1.6MB 60ms 0ms odin 2024
nim 1.nim 478ms 6.6ms 1.5MB 470ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
nim 1.nim 483ms 14ms 1.3MB 477ms 0ms nim 2.2.4

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 288ms 4.8ms 4.6MB 280ms 0ms odin 2024
nim 1.nim 389ms 0.9ms 4.8MB 380ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
nim 1.nim 577ms 4.1ms 4.5MB 563ms 0ms nim 2.2.4

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 14ms 0.2ms 1.6MB 10ms 0ms odin 2024
nim 1.nim 19ms 0.7ms 1.9MB 10ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
nim 1.nim 26ms 0.4ms 1.6MB 20ms 0ms nim 2.2.4

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 321ms 2.4ms 1.8MB 310ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
nim 2.nim 344ms 1.2ms 1.9MB 330ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 356ms 2.5ms 1.5MB 347ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1-i.odin 358ms 0.4ms 1.5MB 350ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 2.nim 34ms 0.6ms 1.8MB 30ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
nim 2.nim 38ms 1.4ms 2.0MB 30ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
odin 1-i.odin 38ms 0.7ms 1.5MB 30ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1.odin 38ms 0.4ms 1.5MB 30ms 0ms odin 2024

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 278ms 6.7ms 40.7MB 263ms 0ms odin 2024
nim 1.nim 306ms 36ms 41.5MB 297ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
nim 1.nim 334ms 13ms 41.8MB 323ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
odin 2.odin 700ms 31ms 6.5MB 687ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 51ms 1.1ms 11.5MB 40ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 55ms 3.9ms 11.3MB 43ms 0ms odin 2024
nim 1.nim 67ms 7.6ms 11.8MB 60ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
odin 2.odin 178ms 6.0ms 2.8MB 167ms 0ms odin 2024

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 3589ms 1.4ms 2.0MB 3580ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
nim 1.nim 3601ms 3.5ms 1.4MB 3593ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 3604ms 7.2ms 2.9MB 3597ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 899ms 0.7ms 1.5MB 890ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
nim 1.nim 903ms 1.2ms 1.3MB 893ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 904ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 890ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 227ms 0.4ms 1.5MB 220ms 0ms nim/clang 2.2.4
nim 1.nim 228ms 1.8ms 1.3MB 220ms 0ms nim 2.2.4
odin 1.odin 228ms 1.5ms 1.9MB 220ms 0ms odin 2024