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Chapel VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Fri Aug 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 924ms 19ms 173.9MB 1400ms 193ms bun 1.2.19
javascript 1.js 1057ms 11ms 455.9MB 973ms 230ms node 24.4.1
chapel 4.chpl 1943ms 3.5ms 62.3MB 1937ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2057ms 34ms 62.4MB 2050ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 99ms 1.4ms 76.3MB 80ms 23ms bun 1.2.19
javascript 1.js 128ms 0.9ms 81.6MB 127ms 23ms node 24.4.1
chapel 4.chpl 185ms 1.5ms 32.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 188ms 2.4ms 32.3MB 187ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 1682ms 32ms 189.9MB 1653ms 93ms node 24.4.1
chapel 1-m.chpl 2227ms 82ms 611.9MB 4340ms 77ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 2481ms 58ms 102.1MB 2540ms 57ms bun 1.2.19

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 157ms 2.7ms 75.6MB 147ms 23ms node 24.4.1
chapel 1-m.chpl 195ms 2.0ms 578.1MB 313ms 50ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 198ms 3.5ms 86.8MB 240ms 33ms bun 1.2.19

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 69ms 0.2ms 32.5MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 280ms 5.6ms 67.8MB 290ms 27ms node 24.4.1
javascript 1.js 519ms 4.8ms 74.4MB 497ms 17ms bun 1.2.19

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 33ms 0.3ms 30.5MB 30ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 125ms 1.2ms 64.0MB 117ms 10ms node 24.4.1
javascript 1.js 508ms 2.5ms 63.9MB 487ms 17ms bun 1.2.19

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 106ms 1.0ms 28.4MB 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 20ms 1.0ms 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
chapel 1.chpl 10ms 0.5ms 28.8MB 0ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 11ms 0.5ms 30.6MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.19
javascript 1.js 32ms 0.3ms 50.7MB 18ms 4ms node 24.4.1

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 746ms 4.8ms 99.0MB 1410ms 7ms 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 114ms 2.1ms 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 324ms 1.7ms 28.8MB 320ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6.js 460ms 3.5ms 59.2MB 447ms 10ms node 24.4.1
javascript 6.js 596ms 2.0ms 43.5MB 597ms 10ms bun 1.2.19

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 43ms 1.3ms 28.8MB 40ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6.js 79ms 0.9ms 43.5MB 80ms 3ms bun 1.2.19
javascript 6.js 79ms 2.5ms 58.8MB 67ms 7ms node 24.4.1

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 444ms 0.8ms 28.3MB 440ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 3.js 4600ms 4.2ms 123.2MB 4550ms 50ms node 24.4.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 114ms 0.4ms 30.4MB 110ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 3.js 1014ms 1.7ms 73.8MB 993ms 17ms node 24.4.1

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1388ms 7.1ms 246.1MB 1340ms 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 159ms 2.9ms 48.9MB 140ms 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 1203ms 44ms 29.1MB 1197ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 2503ms 15ms 61.5MB 2507ms 13ms node 24.4.1
javascript 1.js 2801ms 4.4ms 82.0MB 2817ms 47ms bun 1.2.19

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 308ms 3.0ms 29.1MB 303ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 674ms 2.9ms 59.6MB 680ms 10ms node 24.4.1
javascript 1.js 741ms 2.7ms 81.0MB 740ms 30ms bun 1.2.19

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1914ms 2.2ms 29.0MB 3800ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 2185ms 26ms 119.6MB 8307ms 67ms node 24.4.1
chapel 1.chpl 3718ms 16ms 28.8MB 3713ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 491ms 2.1ms 29.0MB 953ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 660ms 6.2ms 117.7MB 2340ms 50ms node 24.4.1
chapel 1.chpl 945ms 5.5ms 28.6MB 940ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 132ms 0.5ms 28.9MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 246ms 3.8ms 28.8MB 243ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 273ms 4.5ms 114.4MB 847ms 47ms node 24.4.1