Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Zig VS V benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Dec 01 2024, 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
v 1.v 836ms 6.6ms 22.1MB 817ms 7ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8
zig 1.zig 1869ms 58ms 49.1MB 1843ms 10ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 2183ms 50ms 2086.6MB 1270ms 893ms v/clang 0.4.8

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 70ms 1.5ms 4.6MB 60ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8
zig 1.zig 149ms 2.9ms 7.1MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 207ms 2.8ms 197.6MB 117ms 77ms v/clang 0.4.8

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 2268ms 2.9ms 2.5MB 2230ms 27ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 29.2MB 4983ms 3ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 383ms 1.3ms 1.9MB 367ms 3ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 13.0MB 4980ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 645ms 6.6ms 3.5MB 2427ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 3-i.zig 1790ms 1.2ms 1.1MB 1780ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 2229ms 8.2ms 1.9MB 2217ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8
v 1.v 2268ms 4.1ms 1.1MB 2257ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
zig 2.zig 2428ms 24ms 1.1MB 2420ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 2870ms 11ms 1.1MB 2857ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 60ms 2.3ms 3.5MB 193ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 3-i.zig 149ms 0.1ms 1.1MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 194ms 1.6ms 1.1MB 183ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 198ms 4.0ms 1.9MB 183ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8
zig 2.zig 200ms 1.5ms 1.1MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 241ms 1.0ms 1.1MB 230ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 87ms 1.0ms 1.1MB 80ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 508ms 1.5ms 1.3MB 497ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 541ms 3.4ms 2.1MB 527ms 3ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 10ms 0.1ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 56ms 0.9ms 1.3MB 50ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 57ms 1.0ms 2.1MB 47ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 1.1ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 1.1ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 1.6ms 0.3ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 787ms 3.8ms 20.4MB 767ms 7ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 88ms 0.8ms 7.6MB 73ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 35ms 1.7ms 2.9MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 239ms 2.0ms 1.3MB 230ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 259ms 4.5ms 2.1MB 250ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 98ms 2.2ms 2.9MB 90ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 706ms 3.0ms 1.3MB 697ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 767ms 5.1ms 2.1MB 757ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 16ms 1.3ms 1.4MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 92ms 1.4ms 1.3MB 80ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 101ms 1.3ms 2.1MB 90ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 246ms 0.8ms 4.2MB 237ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 12ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 829ms 2.4ms 41.1MB 803ms 10ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 168ms 1.4ms 11.1MB 157ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 273ms 0.3ms 1.1MB 263ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 310ms 0.2ms 1.6MB 300ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 311ms 1.5ms 2.4MB 300ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8
zig 1.zig 313ms 0.6ms 1.3MB 300ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 29ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 33ms 0.2ms 1.3MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 34ms 0.5ms 1.8MB 27ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 34ms 0.4ms 2.4MB 23ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 261ms 9.1ms 40.3MB 247ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 320ms 15ms 40.3MB 303ms 3ms v/clang 0.4.8
zig 2.zig 331ms 1.3ms 6.1MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 2.v 336ms 3.9ms 6.9MB 327ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8
v 1.v 356ms 8.0ms 41.2MB 343ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8
v 2.v 419ms 1.9ms 6.1MB 410ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 54ms 5.1ms 11.0MB 43ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 58ms 1.6ms 11.0MB 47ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 63ms 1.1ms 11.9MB 50ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8
zig 2.zig 81ms 0.7ms 2.4MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 2.v 82ms 0.3ms 3.1MB 70ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8
v 2.v 105ms 1.0ms 2.4MB 93ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 2452ms 1.2ms 2.3MB 2417ms 20ms zig 0.13.0
v 2.v timeout 0.0ms 7.9MB 4980ms 7ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 568ms 3.4ms 1.8MB 557ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 2.v 790ms 7.8ms 2.6MB 780ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 476ms 6.6ms 3.8MB 1563ms 3ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 917ms 5.5ms 1.5MB 907ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 3670ms 5.0ms 1.5MB 3663ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 1.6MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 3.0MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 125ms 0.4ms 3.7MB 273ms 7ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 230ms 0.8ms 1.4MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 924ms 1.5ms 1.4MB 910ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 1281ms 4.1ms 1.5MB 1273ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 1313ms 9.0ms 2.6MB 1300ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 38ms 0.6ms 3.7MB 37ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 60ms 0.3ms 1.4MB 50ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 232ms 0.9ms 1.4MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
v 1.v 324ms 1.5ms 1.5MB 310ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.8
v 1.v 334ms 1.2ms 2.5MB 323ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.8