Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS C benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Apr 01 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
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4957ms 30ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 1821ms 7.9ms 14.4MB 1807ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 3620ms 21ms 10.9MB 3607ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 371ms 2.6ms 6.6MB 360ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms zigcc 0.14.0
c 1.c 1.2ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1.c 1.2ms 0.0ms 2.0MB 0ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.2ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 269ms 1.1ms 1.5MB 260ms 0ms zigcc 0.14.0
c 8-i.c 302ms 0.4ms 2.1MB 290ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 310ms 1.0ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 313ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 303ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 2.c 313ms 0.9ms 1.5MB 303ms 0ms zigcc 0.14.0
c 5.c 315ms 0.8ms 1.5MB 310ms 0ms zigcc 0.14.0
c 5.c 316ms 1.3ms 2.1MB 310ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 319ms 2.7ms 2.1MB 310ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 8-i.c 334ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 327ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4990ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 29ms 0.4ms 1.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.14.0
c 8-i.c 33ms 0.6ms 2.1MB 27ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 33ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 2.c 34ms 0.9ms 1.5MB 30ms 0ms zigcc 0.14.0
c 5.c 34ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 30ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 34ms 0.7ms 1.5MB 30ms 0ms zigcc 0.14.0
c 5.c 35ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 30ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 35ms 1.3ms 2.1MB 30ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 8-i.c 36ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 30ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
perl 2.pl 2724ms 26ms 6.1MB 2713ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 6-im.c 960ms 2.2ms 2.3MB 3773ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 975ms 9.3ms 2.3MB 3827ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 6-im.c 1005ms 2.5ms 3.1MB 3940ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 1093ms 1.6ms 2.0MB 4300ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 1123ms 1.1ms 3.3MB 4410ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 1337ms 13ms 3.1MB 5250ms 7ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 1837ms 4.0ms 3.3MB 7227ms 10ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 1971ms 4.4ms 2.0MB 7777ms 10ms gcc 14.2.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.9MB 19727ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 6-im.c 249ms 5.0ms 2.0MB 953ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 254ms 2.6ms 2.0MB 967ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 6-im.c 262ms 5.7ms 3.3MB 993ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 289ms 7.8ms 2.0MB 1103ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 292ms 3.8ms 3.3MB 1110ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 341ms 2.5ms 3.3MB 1307ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 474ms 15ms 3.1MB 1817ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 506ms 12ms 2.0MB 1957ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.1MB 19560ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 6-im.c 73ms 3.0ms 3.4MB 257ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 6-im.c 73ms 6.3ms 2.0MB 253ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 77ms 10ms 2.0MB 270ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 79ms 0.9ms 3.3MB 280ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 79ms 1.1ms 2.0MB 277ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5-im.c 92ms 0.3ms 3.3MB 330ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 125ms 3.8ms 3.3MB 453ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 133ms 2.7ms 2.0MB 493ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
perl 4-m.pl 3427ms 15ms 9.4MB 13227ms 3ms perl 5.40.1