Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Apr 14 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
javascript 1-m.js 1036ms 29ms 187.6MB 1633ms 273ms bun 1.2.9
javascript 1-m.js 1296ms 2.8ms 272.7MB 2237ms 170ms node 23.11.0
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
javascript 1.js 102ms 0.7ms 79.0MB 77ms 30ms bun 1.2.9
javascript 1.js 130ms 3.3ms 78.4MB 137ms 23ms node 23.11.0
perl 1.pl 1814ms 6.8ms 14.4MB 1800ms 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 3655ms 59ms 10.9MB 3640ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 377ms 6.8ms 6.6MB 363ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.4ms 33.3MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.9
javascript 1.js 33ms 1.0ms 47.8MB 18ms 4ms node 23.11.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 462ms 6.7ms 56.1MB 447ms 10ms node 23.11.0
javascript 6.js 601ms 3.1ms 45.5MB 593ms 7ms bun 1.2.9
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
javascript 6.js 81ms 0.6ms 45.6MB 73ms 10ms bun 1.2.9
javascript 6.js 81ms 0.3ms 56.1MB 70ms 10ms node 23.11.0
perl 2.pl 2936ms 340ms 6.1MB 2927ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 2192ms 18ms 115.7MB 8290ms 60ms node 23.11.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.8MB 19750ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 668ms 7.2ms 113.6MB 2350ms 57ms node 23.11.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.1MB 19607ms 7ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 277ms 3.0ms 109.7MB 853ms 53ms node 23.11.0
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 24ms 9.6MB 13197ms 10ms perl 5.40.1