Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Codon VS Ruby 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
ruby 1.rb 35ms 0.5ms 141.3MB 14ms 24ms truffleruby 24.2.1
ruby 1.rb 51ms 1.3ms 12.9MB 36ms 2ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb 51ms 1.6ms 12.8MB 38ms 4ms ruby 3.4.4

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 2.rb 816ms 4.0ms 312.1MB 1050ms 113ms truffleruby 24.2.1
codon 1.py 1323ms 14ms 8.9MB 1630ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
ruby 2.rb timeout 0.0ms 12.8MB 4987ms 0ms ruby 3.4.4
ruby 2.rb timeout 0.0ms 13.5MB 4980ms 7ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1-m.py 177ms 3.9ms 8.8MB 487ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
ruby 2-m.rb 308ms 14ms 317.9MB 567ms 110ms truffleruby 24.2.1
ruby 2.rb 1025ms 1.2ms 13.5MB 1003ms 10ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 2.rb 2921ms 95ms 12.8MB 2903ms 3ms ruby 3.4.4

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
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 325.3MB 4857ms 133ms ruby 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 327.0MB 4853ms 130ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 732.0MB 5073ms 150ms truffleruby 24.2.1

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
ruby 1-m.rb 1691ms 6.2ms 486.6MB 2437ms 163ms truffleruby 24.2.1
ruby 1.rb 3458ms 150ms 131.6MB 3363ms 80ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb 4471ms 23ms 131.1MB 4383ms 73ms ruby 3.4.4