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Chapel VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Jul 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 998ms 4.7ms 166.9MB 1570ms 240ms bun 1.2.17
javascript 1.js 1086ms 11ms 469.4MB 990ms 243ms node 24.3.0
chapel 4.chpl 1970ms 8.4ms 62.3MB 1960ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2062ms 35ms 62.3MB 2057ms 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 2.6ms 77.4MB 80ms 23ms bun 1.2.17
javascript 1.js 131ms 1.8ms 80.9MB 130ms 33ms node 24.3.0
chapel 3.chpl 188ms 2.0ms 32.3MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 4.chpl 196ms 20ms 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
javascript 1.js 1757ms 89ms 189.8MB 1723ms 107ms node 24.3.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 2288ms 97ms 769.4MB 4450ms 97ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 2594ms 93ms 107.1MB 2637ms 73ms bun 1.2.17

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 164ms 4.1ms 75.2MB 150ms 20ms node 24.3.0
javascript 1.js 206ms 4.1ms 89.2MB 253ms 33ms bun 1.2.17
chapel 1-m.chpl 211ms 14ms 725.6MB 333ms 60ms chpl 1.31.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 72ms 0.4ms 32.5MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 276ms 3.2ms 67.8MB 300ms 23ms node 24.3.0
javascript 1.js 522ms 4.3ms 76.1MB 493ms 20ms bun 1.2.17

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 34ms 0.6ms 30.5MB 30ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 141ms 2.7ms 63.5MB 127ms 23ms node 24.3.0
javascript 1.js 498ms 2.2ms 65.5MB 477ms 13ms bun 1.2.17

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 108ms 3.0ms 28.4MB 193ms 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 1.4ms 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 11ms 0.4ms 28.8MB 0ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.5ms 31.3MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.17
javascript 1.js 32ms 0.5ms 50.6MB 18ms 6ms node 24.3.0

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 789ms 57ms 87.0MB 1463ms 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 0.4ms 76.9MB 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 320ms 1.9ms 28.8MB 317ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6.js 456ms 3.7ms 58.6MB 447ms 3ms node 24.3.0
javascript 6.js 602ms 8.9ms 45.0MB 607ms 3ms bun 1.2.17

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 48ms 4.7ms 28.8MB 43ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6.js 80ms 0.7ms 58.6MB 67ms 10ms node 24.3.0
javascript 6.js 82ms 1.0ms 45.0MB 87ms 3ms bun 1.2.17

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 448ms 1.5ms 30.3MB 443ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 3.js timeout 0.0ms 122.6MB 4957ms 43ms node 24.3.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 113ms 1.0ms 30.4MB 110ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 3.js 1089ms 1.6ms 73.5MB 1063ms 20ms node 24.3.0

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1397ms 5.8ms 246.1MB 1347ms 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 160ms 1.0ms 48.9MB 147ms 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 1189ms 8.0ms 29.1MB 1180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 2471ms 0.4ms 61.3MB 2477ms 17ms node 24.3.0
javascript 1.js 2830ms 8.0ms 82.4MB 2850ms 53ms bun 1.2.17

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 310ms 1.9ms 29.2MB 303ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 1.js 668ms 7.5ms 60.1MB 673ms 13ms node 24.3.0
javascript 1.js 744ms 7.5ms 81.8MB 747ms 30ms bun 1.2.17

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1930ms 12ms 28.9MB 3833ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 2192ms 31ms 119.8MB 8330ms 63ms node 24.3.0
chapel 1.chpl 3728ms 14ms 28.8MB 3723ms 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 495ms 2.2ms 28.9MB 960ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 668ms 9.4ms 118.0MB 2350ms 63ms node 24.3.0
chapel 1.chpl 941ms 4.2ms 28.8MB 937ms 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 134ms 0.7ms 29.0MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 247ms 0.8ms 28.8MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
javascript 6-m.js 278ms 3.8ms 114.6MB 847ms 60ms node 24.3.0