Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS Javascript 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
codon 1-m.py 12ms 0.7ms 8.8MB 20ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.6ms 31.9MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.13
javascript 1.js 32ms 0.5ms 50.0MB 16ms 8ms node 24.0.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 458ms 3.2ms 58.0MB 443ms 10ms node 24.0.2
javascript 6.js 604ms 7.0ms 44.5MB 603ms 3ms bun 1.2.13
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
javascript 6.js 80ms 1.6ms 58.2MB 70ms 7ms node 24.0.2
javascript 6.js 82ms 2.8ms 44.5MB 77ms 3ms bun 1.2.13
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
codon 1-m.py 455ms 9.2ms 47.7MB 757ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
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
codon 1-m.py 126ms 3.4ms 18.4MB 433ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
codon 2-m.py 398ms 2.8ms 27.2MB 707ms 10ms codon 0.18.2