Perl VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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 950ms 61ms 187.4MB 1437ms 247ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1-m.js 1251ms 9.3ms 276.4MB 2177ms 160ms node 23.6.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4960ms 27ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 95ms 0.8ms 79.4MB 77ms 23ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 127ms 2.0ms 82.4MB 117ms 33ms node 23.6.0
perl 1.pl 1798ms 12ms 14.4MB 1787ms 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 3604ms 17ms 10.9MB 3590ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 383ms 27ms 6.5MB 367ms 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 2.8ms 0.4ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.5ms 32.3MB 0ms 10ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 31ms 0.6ms 52.0MB 14ms 8ms node 23.6.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 459ms 2.4ms 59.7MB 447ms 7ms node 23.6.0
javascript 6.js 658ms 0.3ms 45.6MB 653ms 7ms bun 1.1.45
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4987ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 77ms 1.0ms 59.8MB 60ms 10ms node 23.6.0
javascript 6.js 85ms 2.1ms 45.4MB 83ms 3ms bun 1.1.45
perl 2.pl 2757ms 41ms 6.1MB 2743ms 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 2158ms 5.7ms 116.7MB 8230ms 53ms node 23.6.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 13.8MB 19717ms 23ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 642ms 4.1ms 114.0MB 2290ms 50ms node 23.6.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.0MB 19480ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 263ms 2.0ms 113.2MB 823ms 40ms node 23.6.0
perl 4-m.pl 3392ms 3.3ms 12.4MB 13083ms 10ms perl 5.40.1