Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu May 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.)

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.9ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.2
codon 1-m.py 11ms 0.6ms 9.0MB 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 346ms 0.8ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 350ms 2.0ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.2
codon 1.py 1317ms 2.2ms 8.9MB 1623ms 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 0.7ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 38ms 0.9ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.2
codon 1-m.py 174ms 3.5ms 8.8MB 483ms 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 288ms 12ms 39.8MB 273ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 321ms 6.3ms 71.7MB 307ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 2.go 427ms 4.0ms 21.6MB 413ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
codon 1-m.py 444ms 7.4ms 47.7MB 747ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
go 2.go 788ms 2.5ms 21.6MB 777ms 7ms go 1.24.2
codon 2.py 1528ms 20ms 100.8MB 1827ms 30ms codon 0.18.2

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 57ms 1.6ms 10.5MB 47ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 67ms 0.4ms 21.6MB 60ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 2.go 109ms 0.7ms 4.9MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
codon 1-m.py 127ms 3.2ms 18.4MB 427ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
go 2.go 197ms 3.1ms 6.1MB 183ms 0ms go 1.24.2
codon 2-m.py 398ms 9.8ms 27.1MB 707ms 3ms codon 0.18.2