Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS Go 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.)

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.6ms 0.1ms 0.3MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1.go 1.4ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.5
codon 1-m.py 11ms 1.0ms 8.6MB 22ms 0ms codon 0.19.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 347ms 2.9ms 0.3MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1.go 351ms 2.5ms 3.5MB 343ms 0ms go 1.24.5
codon 1.py 1318ms 1.0ms 9.4MB 1627ms 0ms codon 0.19.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 37ms 1.7ms 0.3MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1.go 38ms 1.3ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.5
codon 1-m.py 176ms 3.2ms 9.4MB 487ms 0ms codon 0.19.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 313ms 5.6ms 39.4MB 297ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1.go 315ms 7.2ms 71.7MB 303ms 0ms go 1.24.5
codon 1-m.py 410ms 9.1ms 48.4MB 713ms 3ms codon 0.19.0
go 2.go 470ms 3.6ms 20.0MB 457ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 2.go 784ms 5.0ms 21.8MB 773ms 7ms go 1.24.5
codon 2.py 903ms 4.6ms 100.8MB 1207ms 20ms codon 0.19.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 63ms 3.8ms 21.6MB 53ms 0ms go 1.24.5
go 1.go 71ms 6.1ms 10.0MB 60ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
codon 1-m.py 118ms 3.1ms 18.9MB 423ms 0ms codon 0.19.0
go 2.go 118ms 3.3ms 4.1MB 110ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 2.go 194ms 1.7ms 6.1MB 187ms 0ms go 1.24.5
codon 2-m.py 236ms 3.0ms 27.6MB 540ms 3ms codon 0.19.0