Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon May 19 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 0.8ms 0.0ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.4ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.3
codon 1-m.py 12ms 0.7ms 8.8MB 20ms 0ms codon 0.18.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 349ms 0.2ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 1.go 353ms 6.1ms 0.4MB 343ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
codon 1.py 1323ms 14ms 8.9MB 1630ms 0ms codon 0.18.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 37ms 0.6ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 38ms 1.3ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.3
codon 1-m.py 177ms 3.9ms 8.8MB 487ms 0ms codon 0.18.2

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 301ms 21ms 39.5MB 287ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 307ms 11ms 71.6MB 293ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 2.go 427ms 3.7ms 20.4MB 413ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
codon 1-m.py 455ms 9.2ms 47.7MB 757ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
go 2.go 746ms 1.8ms 21.7MB 733ms 10ms go 1.24.3
codon 2.py 1561ms 6.3ms 100.8MB 1870ms 23ms codon 0.18.2

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 53ms 2.6ms 10.1MB 43ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 58ms 1.1ms 21.6MB 50ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 2.go 109ms 1.9ms 4.9MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
codon 1-m.py 126ms 3.4ms 18.4MB 433ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
go 2.go 181ms 2.1ms 5.8MB 170ms 0ms go 1.24.3
codon 2-m.py 398ms 2.8ms 27.2MB 707ms 10ms codon 0.18.2