Odin VS Zig 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
zig 1.zig 2060ms 58ms 49.0MB 2023ms 20ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 2427ms 38ms 49.5MB 2397ms 13ms odin 2024

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 154ms 0.4ms 7.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 220ms 1.5ms 7.5MB 210ms 0ms odin 2024

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 1.1ms 0.1ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 1.1ms 0.1ms 1.6MB 0ms 0ms odin 2024

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 34ms 1.0ms 2.8MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 157ms 3.5ms 1.6MB 147ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 94ms 1.8ms 2.8MB 83ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 461ms 4.1ms 1.6MB 453ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 15ms 0.4ms 1.3MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 72ms 1.8ms 1.6MB 63ms 0ms odin 2024

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 248ms 0.7ms 4.0MB 240ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 288ms 3.9ms 4.5MB 280ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 12ms 0.1ms 1.1MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 14ms 0.3ms 1.7MB 10ms 0ms odin 2024

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 199ms 0.6ms 1.0MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 280ms 0.6ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 316ms 0.5ms 1.1MB 307ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 353ms 0.3ms 1.5MB 340ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1-i.odin 358ms 0.1ms 1.6MB 350ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 22ms 0.2ms 1.1MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.4ms 1.1MB 30ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 38ms 0.4ms 1.5MB 30ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1-i.odin 38ms 0.5ms 1.5MB 30ms 0ms odin 2024

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 287ms 11ms 40.1MB 267ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 306ms 3.3ms 40.5MB 287ms 3ms odin 2024
zig 2.zig 330ms 4.7ms 6.0MB 317ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 2.odin 745ms 2.4ms 6.5MB 733ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 59ms 2.5ms 10.8MB 50ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 61ms 1.9ms 11.2MB 50ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 2.zig 82ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 2.odin 186ms 2.7ms 4.8MB 177ms 0ms odin 2024

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 3596ms 0.7ms 2.9MB 3587ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 1.zig 3693ms 9.0ms 1.4MB 3683ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 902ms 1.0ms 2.3MB 890ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 1.zig 923ms 1.3ms 1.3MB 913ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 229ms 1.5ms 1.9MB 220ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 1.zig 239ms 8.0ms 1.3MB 230ms 0ms zig 0.14.0