Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Chapel VS Crystal benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Mar 25 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
crystal 1.cr 1276ms 8.3ms 64.0MB 1257ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
chapel 3.chpl 2069ms 6.5ms 60.3MB 2057ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 4.chpl 2076ms 200ms 62.2MB 2063ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
crystal 1.cr 105ms 2.2ms 10.9MB 90ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
chapel 3.chpl 188ms 1.6ms 32.2MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 4.chpl 196ms 21ms 32.3MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
crystal 1.cr 1381ms 34ms 19.6MB 1307ms 57ms crystal 1.15.1
chapel 1-m.chpl 2266ms 93ms 525.8MB 4393ms 80ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
crystal 1.cr 71ms 3.7ms 7.1MB 50ms 10ms crystal 1.15.1
chapel 1-m.chpl 198ms 4.8ms 494.6MB 317ms 50ms chpl 1.31.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
crystal 1.cr 59ms 1.7ms 6.4MB 43ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
chapel 1.chpl 73ms 2.7ms 32.5MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
crystal 1.cr 22ms 0.7ms 5.1MB 10ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
chapel 1.chpl 34ms 1.3ms 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 106ms 1.8ms 28.3MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
crystal 2.cr 555ms 3.0ms 3.4MB 450ms 90ms crystal 1.15.1
crystal 1.cr 694ms 0.6ms 14.4MB 573ms 107ms crystal 1.15.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5.chpl 21ms 1.3ms 28.4MB 20ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
crystal 2.cr 59ms 0.3ms 3.4MB 40ms 7ms crystal 1.15.1
crystal 1.cr 75ms 1.4ms 4.8MB 57ms 7ms crystal 1.15.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
crystal 1.cr 2.0ms 0.5ms 2.8MB 0ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
chapel 1.chpl 11ms 0.5ms 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 1.1ms 87.0MB 1410ms 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 116ms 0.5ms 87.0MB 200ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 326ms 5.3ms 28.9MB 317ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
crystal 2.cr 344ms 4.8ms 3.3MB 333ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
crystal 1.cr 345ms 2.6ms 3.3MB 333ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
crystal 1.cr 38ms 1.5ms 3.1MB 30ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
crystal 2.cr 38ms 0.5ms 3.1MB 30ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
chapel 2.chpl 45ms 2.3ms 28.8MB 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 446ms 2.3ms 28.4MB 440ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
crystal 1.cr 1886ms 42ms 6.2MB 1853ms 17ms crystal 1.15.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 116ms 1.2ms 30.3MB 110ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
crystal 1.cr 479ms 12ms 5.0MB 463ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1399ms 7.7ms 222.1MB 1347ms 43ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 164ms 2.9ms 49.0MB 150ms 10ms 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 3.6ms 29.2MB 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 308ms 2.9ms 29.0MB 303ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1928ms 19ms 28.8MB 3830ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 3725ms 17ms 28.8MB 3720ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
crystal 1.cr 3792ms 11ms 4.5MB 3783ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 492ms 0.6ms 28.5MB 957ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 940ms 1.1ms 28.8MB 933ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
crystal 1.cr 952ms 1.2ms 4.3MB 940ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 135ms 1.0ms 28.9MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 247ms 2.4ms 28.8MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
crystal 1.cr 248ms 11ms 3.8MB 237ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1