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Chapel VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jul 13 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
wasm 5.rs 1739ms 5.1ms 34.0MB 1720ms 7ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 4.rs 1815ms 23ms 34.1MB 1793ms 10ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 3.rs 1852ms 9.2ms 50.0MB 1823ms 17ms wasmtime 34.0.1
chapel 4.chpl 1953ms 3.7ms 62.3MB 1943ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2034ms 7.2ms 62.3MB 2027ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 171ms 1.3ms 20.0MB 157ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 4.rs 174ms 3.1ms 20.0MB 163ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 3.rs 180ms 3.2ms 22.0MB 163ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
chapel 4.chpl 183ms 1.2ms 32.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 184ms 0.6ms 32.3MB 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
wasm 3.rs 1098ms 7.8ms 20.3MB 1083ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
chapel 1-m.chpl 2252ms 44ms 799.1MB 4370ms 97ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 78ms 3.2ms 18.7MB 63ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
chapel 1-m.chpl 220ms 8.1ms 759.6MB 343ms 67ms 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 3.0ms 32.5MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 1.rs 420ms 3.1ms 19.6MB 407ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 33ms 1.6ms 30.5MB 30ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 1.rs 114ms 1.7ms 19.0MB 100ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 106ms 1.6ms 28.4MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 1.rs 234ms 2.4ms 18.2MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5.chpl 21ms 1.9ms 28.4MB 20ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 1.rs 31ms 0.4ms 18.3MB 20ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 6.7ms 0.5ms 18.2MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
chapel 1.chpl 11ms 0.6ms 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 758ms 2.5ms 86.9MB 1433ms 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 117ms 1.8ms 87.0MB 203ms 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 322ms 1.9ms 28.9MB 317ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 1.rs 405ms 1.9ms 18.0MB 390ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 2.rs 564ms 4.6ms 18.1MB 553ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 43ms 0.4ms 28.8MB 40ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 1.rs 47ms 0.1ms 18.1MB 37ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 2.rs 65ms 1.7ms 18.1MB 50ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 446ms 0.8ms 28.3MB 440ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 2.rs 2143ms 4.7ms 19.0MB 2127ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 115ms 1.5ms 30.4MB 110ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 2.rs 506ms 0.5ms 18.3MB 490ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1387ms 2.0ms 246.2MB 1340ms 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 162ms 2.3ms 48.9MB 143ms 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 1210ms 43ms 29.0MB 1203ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 1.rs 3418ms 14ms 18.1MB 3407ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 315ms 12ms 29.1MB 310ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 1.rs 866ms 6.0ms 17.8MB 853ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1924ms 19ms 28.9MB 3823ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 2.rs 3597ms 3.4ms 17.7MB 3583ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
chapel 1.chpl 3743ms 29ms 28.8MB 3740ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 7.rs 4892ms 1.4ms 19.8MB 4880ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 492ms 2.1ms 28.9MB 953ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 2.rs 906ms 1.0ms 18.3MB 893ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
chapel 1.chpl 939ms 3.2ms 28.8MB 933ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 7.rs 1231ms 2.6ms 17.7MB 1217ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 138ms 9.9ms 28.9MB 250ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 2.rs 234ms 0.9ms 17.8MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
chapel 1.chpl 248ms 1.3ms 28.8MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
wasm 7.rs 314ms 0.5ms 18.1MB 300ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1