Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Go 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
go 1.go 1240ms 17ms 54.9MB 1220ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2400ms 32ms 42.0MB 5317ms 40ms go 1.24.1
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
go 1.go 112ms 0.9ms 5.6MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 212ms 1.0ms 8.2MB 377ms 10ms go 1.24.1
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
go 3-m.go 126ms 0.9ms 5.5MB 377ms 0ms go 1.24.1
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
go 3-m.go 17ms 0.8ms 7.4MB 33ms 0ms go 1.24.1
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
go 1.go 0.9ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.1
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
go 1.go 347ms 1.9ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 352ms 2.3ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.1
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
go 1.go 38ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 39ms 0.7ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.1
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
go 4-m.go 1910ms 19ms 5.5MB 7410ms 3ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 3664ms 9.1ms 5.6MB 3657ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 0.5MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
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
go 4-m.go 491ms 16ms 5.5MB 1820ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 918ms 2.8ms 3.5MB 910ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 1397ms 0.8ms 0.5MB 1390ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
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
go 4-m.go 126ms 0.8ms 5.5MB 453ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 234ms 0.7ms 3.5MB 227ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 352ms 0.6ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
perl 4-m.pl 3427ms 15ms 9.4MB 13227ms 3ms perl 5.40.1