Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS Python benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Fri Aug 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
python 1.py 11ms 0.9ms 7.8MB 0ms 0ms pyston 3.8.12
codon 1-m.py 12ms 0.2ms 8.5MB 20ms 0ms codon 0.19.1
python 1.py 13ms 0.8ms 8.8MB 0ms 0ms cpython 3.13.5
python 1.py 29ms 0.8ms 52.2MB 10ms 10ms pypy 3.11.13

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
python 2.py 1342ms 2.7ms 60.5MB 1317ms 13ms pypy 3.11.13
codon 1.py 1463ms 143ms 9.4MB 1773ms 0ms codon 0.19.1
python 1.py 2650ms 17ms 57.8MB 2627ms 10ms pypy 3.11.13
python 1.py timeout 0.0ms 8.9MB 4990ms 0ms cpython 3.13.5
python 2.py timeout 0.0ms 9.0MB 4990ms 0ms cpython 3.13.5
python 1.py timeout 0.0ms 8.3MB 4990ms 0ms pyston 3.8.12
python 2.py timeout 0.0ms 8.1MB 4990ms 0ms pyston 3.8.12

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1-m.py 176ms 4.7ms 9.4MB 487ms 0ms codon 0.19.1
python 2.py 176ms 4.7ms 58.5MB 153ms 10ms pypy 3.11.13
python 1.py 305ms 1.6ms 57.8MB 283ms 7ms pypy 3.11.13
python 1.py 940ms 29ms 8.3MB 927ms 0ms pyston 3.8.12
python 2.py 1345ms 52ms 8.1MB 1330ms 0ms pyston 3.8.12
python 1.py 2971ms 99ms 8.9MB 2960ms 0ms cpython 3.13.5
python 2.py 2989ms 51ms 9.0MB 2977ms 0ms cpython 3.13.5

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1-m.py 407ms 5.7ms 48.3MB 717ms 0ms codon 0.19.1
codon 2.py 896ms 5.4ms 100.8MB 1197ms 23ms codon 0.19.1
python 1.py 2403ms 56ms 369.9MB 2330ms 57ms pypy 3.11.13
python 2.py 2979ms 17ms 633.0MB 2793ms 170ms pyston 3.8.12
python 1.py 4806ms 156ms 320.4MB 4743ms 47ms pyston 3.8.12
python 1.py timeout 0.0ms 321.4MB 4960ms 20ms cpython 3.13.5
python 2.py timeout 0.0ms 633.8MB 4827ms 160ms cpython 3.13.5
python 2.py timeout 0.0ms 1017.7MB 4707ms 280ms pypy 3.11.13

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1-m.py 119ms 3.0ms 19.3MB 427ms 0ms codon 0.19.1
codon 2-m.py 229ms 1.6ms 27.6MB 537ms 7ms codon 0.19.1
python 1.py 503ms 12ms 135.7MB 463ms 23ms pypy 3.11.13
python 2.py 726ms 6.1ms 164.2MB 683ms 30ms pyston 3.8.12
python 1.py 1068ms 11ms 86.0MB 1040ms 10ms pyston 3.8.12
python 2.py 1370ms 7.2ms 165.1MB 1327ms 30ms cpython 3.13.5
python 2.py 1392ms 15ms 290.8MB 1303ms 73ms pypy 3.11.13
python 1.py 2819ms 6.7ms 87.0MB 2793ms 10ms cpython 3.13.5