Codon VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Jun 23 2025, full log can be found HERE

CONTRIBUTIONS are WELCOME!

[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
wasm 1.rs 7.1ms 0.1ms 16.7MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
codon 1-m.py 12ms 0.9ms 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
wasm 1.rs 404ms 1.2ms 17.7MB 390ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
wasm 2.rs 562ms 1.1ms 17.8MB 550ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
codon 1.py 1453ms 224ms 8.8MB 1763ms 0ms codon 0.18.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 49ms 0.5ms 17.9MB 37ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
wasm 2.rs 66ms 1.6ms 18.0MB 50ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
codon 1-m.py 175ms 4.0ms 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
wasm 2.rs 381ms 1.9ms 22.9MB 367ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
codon 1-m.py 502ms 15ms 47.7MB 803ms 3ms codon 0.18.2
wasm 1.rs 613ms 42ms 56.9MB 597ms 10ms wasmtime 34.0.0
codon 2.py 1569ms 7.2ms 101.0MB 1877ms 20ms codon 0.18.2

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 95ms 0.7ms 27.6MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
wasm 2.rs 98ms 1.0ms 20.9MB 87ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
codon 1-m.py 128ms 2.1ms 18.7MB 437ms 0ms codon 0.18.2
codon 2-m.py 398ms 6.2ms 27.1MB 710ms 7ms codon 0.18.2