Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Javascript 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
javascript 1-m.js 1004ms 24ms 188.7MB 1530ms 233ms bun 1.2.8
javascript 1-m.js 1411ms 78ms 271.7MB 2213ms 160ms node 23.10.0
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 101ms 1.5ms 79.0MB 77ms 27ms bun 1.2.8
javascript 1.js 124ms 0.7ms 78.6MB 127ms 23ms node 23.10.0
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
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.2ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.5ms 32.8MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.8
javascript 1.js 31ms 0.9ms 48.1MB 18ms 4ms node 23.10.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 460ms 4.6ms 55.8MB 447ms 7ms node 23.10.0
javascript 6.js 791ms 19ms 45.8MB 783ms 10ms bun 1.2.8
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 78ms 1.4ms 56.0MB 70ms 7ms node 23.10.0
javascript 6.js 99ms 1.1ms 45.8MB 97ms 3ms bun 1.2.8
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
javascript 6-m.js 2173ms 8.2ms 114.4MB 8300ms 53ms node 23.10.0
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
javascript 6-m.js 650ms 1.3ms 113.4MB 2307ms 53ms node 23.10.0
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
javascript 6-m.js 268ms 5.8ms 112.1MB 827ms 50ms node 23.10.0
perl 4-m.pl 3427ms 15ms 9.4MB 13227ms 3ms perl 5.40.1