Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Chapel VS Zig benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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
zig 1.zig 1729ms 12ms 49.1MB 1700ms 13ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 4.chpl 1949ms 7.9ms 66.2MB 1943ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2033ms 5.5ms 66.3MB 2020ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 146ms 1.2ms 7.1MB 137ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 4.chpl 191ms 2.9ms 36.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 199ms 3.7ms 34.3MB 187ms 3ms 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 2257ms 56ms 518.0MB 4400ms 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 192ms 11ms 444.7MB 303ms 37ms chpl 1.31.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 80ms 0.6ms 36.5MB 70ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 2269ms 5.3ms 2.5MB 2230ms 23ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 40ms 0.2ms 34.5MB 33ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 384ms 2.4ms 1.9MB 370ms 3ms zig 0.13.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 87ms 0.6ms 1.1MB 80ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 5-m.chpl 112ms 0.7ms 32.4MB 187ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 10ms 0.1ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 5.chpl 29ms 0.2ms 32.4MB 23ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 1.0ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 1.chpl 16ms 0.5ms 32.8MB 7ms 3ms 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 750ms 2.0ms 101.0MB 1407ms 10ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 788ms 2.8ms 20.8MB 767ms 7ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 89ms 1.6ms 7.5MB 73ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 3-m.chpl 122ms 1.7ms 81.1MB 197ms 10ms chpl 1.31.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 274ms 0.5ms 1.1MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 313ms 0.7ms 1.3MB 300ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 2.chpl 329ms 2.4ms 32.8MB 320ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 29ms 0.0ms 1.1MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.3ms 1.3MB 27ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 2.chpl 52ms 0.4ms 32.8MB 40ms 7ms chpl 1.31.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 452ms 1.6ms 34.4MB 440ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 2472ms 10ms 2.3MB 2437ms 17ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 121ms 1.3ms 34.4MB 113ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 566ms 0.6ms 1.8MB 553ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1392ms 7.7ms 224.2MB 1343ms 37ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 168ms 1.8ms 52.9MB 153ms 7ms chpl 1.31.0

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 1187ms 3.1ms 33.1MB 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 318ms 2.7ms 33.1MB 307ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 473ms 1.2ms 3.9MB 1583ms 7ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 916ms 1.6ms 1.5MB 903ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 1913ms 0.6ms 32.8MB 3787ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 3670ms 6.3ms 1.5MB 3660ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 1.chpl 3715ms 5.7ms 32.8MB 3700ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 125ms 0.3ms 3.7MB 273ms 3ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 231ms 2.4ms 1.4MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 497ms 2.2ms 32.9MB 960ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 921ms 1.9ms 1.4MB 910ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 1.chpl 945ms 2.0ms 32.8MB 937ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 39ms 1.5ms 3.7MB 33ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 60ms 0.8ms 1.4MB 50ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 1-m.chpl 140ms 2.4ms 32.9MB 247ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
zig 1.zig 232ms 0.8ms 1.4MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
chapel 1.chpl 255ms 3.6ms 32.8MB 247ms 3ms chpl 1.31.0