Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Chapel benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jun 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
chapel 4.chpl 1954ms 6.5ms 62.3MB 1947ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2047ms 28ms 60.3MB 2040ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4960ms 27ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 4.chpl 185ms 3.6ms 32.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 185ms 0.6ms 32.2MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 1815ms 12ms 14.4MB 1800ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 104ms 1.5ms 28.3MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 3556ms 18ms 10.9MB 3543ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5.chpl 21ms 0.7ms 28.4MB 20ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 367ms 3.7ms 6.6MB 357ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.3ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
chapel 1.chpl 9.3ms 1.5ms 28.8MB 0ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 322ms 1.7ms 28.8MB 320ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4990ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 44ms 1.3ms 28.9MB 40ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 2.pl 2719ms 106ms 6.1MB 2707ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1922ms 11ms 29.0MB 3817ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 3716ms 4.8ms 28.8MB 3710ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.9MB 19830ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 492ms 1.0ms 28.9MB 957ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 940ms 1.7ms 28.8MB 940ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19553ms 10ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 133ms 1.1ms 28.9MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 246ms 3.6ms 28.8MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4-m.pl 3429ms 2.4ms 9.5MB 13317ms 7ms perl 5.40.2