Swift VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu May 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 1220ms 11ms 55.0MB 1197ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2348ms 15ms 40.2MB 5240ms 33ms go 1.24.2
swift 1.swift 2603ms 10ms 53.8MB 2570ms 20ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 113ms 1.8ms 5.6MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 208ms 0.9ms 8.1MB 367ms 7ms go 1.24.2
swift 1.swift 236ms 1.2ms 11.8MB 220ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 727ms 2.6ms 5.5MB 2810ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 3.go 2016ms 6.4ms 48.8MB 2000ms 7ms tinygo 0.37.0
swift 1.swift 2477ms 9.7ms 5.5MB 2470ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 76ms 0.8ms 5.6MB 207ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 3.go 188ms 2.3ms 48.9MB 170ms 3ms tinygo 0.37.0
swift 1.swift 213ms 1.6ms 5.5MB 203ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 118ms 1.3ms 6.8MB 380ms 0ms go 1.24.2
swift 3-m.swift 149ms 1.4ms 20.9MB 430ms 7ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 17ms 1.1ms 7.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.2
swift 3.swift 39ms 0.2ms 14.4MB 40ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

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 1.24.2
swift 1.swift 2.4ms 0.3ms 5.8MB 0ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 7-m.go 674ms 2.1ms 41.7MB 2390ms 20ms go 1.24.2
swift 2-m.swift 1342ms 9.5ms 74.3MB 4893ms 33ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 7-m.go 132ms 1.0ms 23.6MB 343ms 30ms go 1.24.2
swift 2-m.swift 254ms 1.0ms 59.8MB 660ms 37ms swift 6.1.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 7.swift 345ms 0.9ms 10.0MB 337ms 0ms swift 6.1.0
go 1.go 346ms 0.8ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 350ms 2.0ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 37ms 0.7ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 38ms 0.9ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.2
swift 7.swift 38ms 0.6ms 10.1MB 30ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 1118ms 6.9ms 8.7MB 1103ms 3ms go 1.24.2
swift 1.swift timeout 0.0ms 7.1MB 4933ms 50ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 271ms 2.4ms 8.6MB 260ms 0ms go 1.24.2
swift 1.swift 1944ms 18ms 7.0MB 1930ms 0ms swift 6.1.0