Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Chapel VS C++ benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jun 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
chapel 4.chpl 1954ms 6.5ms 62.3MB 1947ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2047ms 28ms 60.3MB 2040ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 4.chpl 185ms 3.6ms 32.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 185ms 0.6ms 32.2MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 2211ms 79ms 480.1MB 4320ms 70ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 179ms 0.7ms 445.0MB 293ms 40ms chpl 1.31.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 71ms 1.5ms 32.5MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 33ms 2.6ms 30.5MB 30ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 104ms 1.5ms 28.3MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5.chpl 21ms 0.7ms 28.4MB 20ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 1.cpp 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 1.4ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 0ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
chapel 1.chpl 9.3ms 1.5ms 28.8MB 0ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 747ms 5.4ms 87.2MB 1417ms 10ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 113ms 1.0ms 87.0MB 200ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 167ms 0.4ms 1.5MB 160ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 0-i.cpp 171ms 0.7ms 2.4MB 160ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 314ms 2.2ms 1.8MB 303ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 318ms 0.4ms 2.3MB 310ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
chapel 2.chpl 322ms 1.7ms 28.8MB 320ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 18ms 0.0ms 1.5MB 10ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 0-i.cpp 19ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 10ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.4ms 1.9MB 30ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 23ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
chapel 2.chpl 44ms 1.3ms 28.9MB 40ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 444ms 0.7ms 30.4MB 440ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 113ms 1.8ms 30.4MB 110ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1387ms 3.3ms 220.1MB 1343ms 40ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 163ms 3.8ms 49.0MB 143ms 13ms chpl 1.31.0

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 1181ms 6.5ms 29.1MB 1177ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 307ms 4.2ms 29.1MB 303ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 469ms 3.7ms 3.5MB 1823ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 482ms 1.3ms 2.1MB 1887ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 917ms 0.3ms 3.4MB 3603ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 920ms 1.7ms 2.1MB 3617ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 1922ms 11ms 29.0MB 3817ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 3716ms 4.8ms 28.8MB 3710ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 123ms 0.4ms 3.4MB 457ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 128ms 0.5ms 2.0MB 480ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 236ms 0.8ms 3.4MB 900ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 238ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 920ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 492ms 1.0ms 28.9MB 957ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 940ms 1.7ms 28.8MB 940ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 39ms 0.4ms 2.0MB 130ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 8-m.cpp 41ms 8.7ms 3.5MB 120ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 65ms 1.3ms 3.4MB 230ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 66ms 0.2ms 2.0MB 240ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 133ms 1.1ms 28.9MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 246ms 3.6ms 28.8MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0