Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

C++ VS Crystal benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Mar 25 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.)

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 1-im.cpp 400ms 5.5ms 2.6MB 1540ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1-im.cpp 409ms 4.1ms 4.0MB 1590ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
crystal 1.cr 2508ms 6.1ms 2.8MB 2493ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 1-im.cpp 41ms 1.5ms 2.6MB 133ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1-im.cpp 42ms 0.4ms 4.0MB 140ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
crystal 1.cr 207ms 1.2ms 2.8MB 200ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 1.cpp 1.1ms 0.1ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 0ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
crystal 1.cr 2.0ms 0.5ms 2.8MB 0ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 167ms 0.1ms 1.5MB 160ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 0-i.cpp 171ms 0.5ms 2.3MB 160ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 315ms 0.8ms 2.3MB 307ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 316ms 0.4ms 1.8MB 307ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
crystal 2.cr 344ms 4.8ms 3.3MB 333ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
crystal 1.cr 345ms 2.6ms 3.3MB 333ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 19ms 0.1ms 1.5MB 10ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 0-i.cpp 19ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 10ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.7ms 1.9MB 30ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.7ms 2.3MB 30ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
crystal 1.cr 38ms 1.5ms 3.1MB 30ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
crystal 2.cr 38ms 0.5ms 3.1MB 30ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
crystal 2.cr 301ms 3.6ms 8.1MB 290ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
crystal 1.cr 440ms 6.5ms 42.3MB 430ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
cpp 1.cpp 485ms 2.1ms 7.3MB 477ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 531ms 3.5ms 7.8MB 523ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
crystal 2.cr 77ms 2.1ms 4.4MB 67ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
crystal 1.cr 91ms 3.7ms 13.0MB 80ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1
cpp 1.cpp 119ms 0.4ms 3.6MB 110ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 133ms 1.4ms 4.1MB 123ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 474ms 9.5ms 3.5MB 1827ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 484ms 1.5ms 2.1MB 1883ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 927ms 9.1ms 2.1MB 3633ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 928ms 16ms 3.6MB 3630ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
crystal 1.cr 3792ms 11ms 4.5MB 3783ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 124ms 0.6ms 3.4MB 460ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 130ms 0.6ms 2.0MB 490ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 238ms 0.5ms 3.4MB 903ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 240ms 2.0ms 2.1MB 917ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
crystal 1.cr 952ms 1.2ms 4.3MB 940ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 40ms 0.2ms 2.0MB 130ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 8-m.cpp 41ms 9.9ms 3.4MB 120ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 65ms 0.7ms 3.4MB 230ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 67ms 0.4ms 2.1MB 240ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
crystal 1.cr 248ms 11ms 3.8MB 237ms 0ms crystal 1.15.1