Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

C++ VS Zig benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu May 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.)

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 1-im.cpp 397ms 5.7ms 2.6MB 1537ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1-im.cpp 406ms 9.6ms 3.9MB 1573ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
zig 2-m.zig 632ms 6.8ms 1.4MB 2400ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 1765ms 2.1ms 1.0MB 1757ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 2717ms 3.5ms 1.0MB 2707ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 1-im.cpp 41ms 2.8ms 4.0MB 133ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1-im.cpp 41ms 4.6ms 2.6MB 137ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
zig 2-m.zig 60ms 0.7ms 1.4MB 200ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 147ms 0.2ms 1.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 228ms 1.2ms 1.0MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 1.cpp 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
zig 1.zig 1.1ms 0.2ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 0ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 167ms 0.2ms 1.5MB 160ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 0-i.cpp 171ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 160ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
zig 3.zig 198ms 1.2ms 1.0MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 279ms 0.4ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 314ms 0.8ms 2.3MB 307ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 315ms 2.0ms 1.8MB 303ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
zig 1.zig 315ms 1.0ms 1.1MB 307ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 18ms 0.0ms 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
zig 3.zig 22ms 0.3ms 1.1MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.6ms 1.1MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.9ms 1.9MB 30ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 271ms 2.6ms 40.2MB 250ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 328ms 2.4ms 6.0MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 487ms 2.7ms 7.3MB 480ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 531ms 3.0ms 7.8MB 520ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 54ms 4.4ms 10.9MB 47ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 81ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 120ms 1.9ms 3.6MB 110ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 131ms 2.1ms 4.1MB 120ms 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 469ms 2.7ms 3.4MB 1823ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 504ms 36ms 2.1MB 1933ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 919ms 0.8ms 3.4MB 3610ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 921ms 0.4ms 2.3MB 3627ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
zig 1.zig 3689ms 4.3ms 1.4MB 3683ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 124ms 1.3ms 3.4MB 460ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 128ms 0.2ms 2.0MB 480ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 238ms 1.7ms 3.4MB 907ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 240ms 4.3ms 2.1MB 917ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
zig 1.zig 923ms 3.3ms 1.3MB 913ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 39ms 0.1ms 2.0MB 130ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 8-m.cpp 40ms 8.1ms 3.5MB 117ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 67ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 240ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 68ms 4.7ms 3.3MB 230ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
zig 1.zig 232ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.14.0