Programming Language and compiler
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C++ VS Zig benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Apr 14 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 396ms 7.9ms 2.6MB 1530ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1-im.cpp 405ms 5.0ms 4.0MB 1567ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
zig 2-m.zig 631ms 8.0ms 1.4MB 2400ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 1768ms 2.0ms 1.0MB 1760ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 2714ms 7.8ms 1.1MB 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 39ms 0.3ms 2.6MB 130ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1-im.cpp 39ms 0.2ms 3.9MB 130ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
zig 2-m.zig 60ms 1.2ms 1.4MB 200ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 148ms 1.0ms 1.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 229ms 0.7ms 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
zig 1.zig 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.0MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 1.1ms 0.1ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 1.4ms 0.2ms 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 0.4ms 1.0MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 280ms 0.3ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 314ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 303ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 314ms 1.5ms 1.8MB 310ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
zig 1.zig 315ms 0.5ms 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 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
zig 3.zig 22ms 0.2ms 1.0MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.4ms 1.1MB 30ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 34ms 0.6ms 1.8MB 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 263ms 1.3ms 40.1MB 250ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 328ms 2.0ms 6.0MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 489ms 5.4ms 7.3MB 477ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 528ms 1.2ms 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 50ms 1.1ms 10.8MB 40ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 80ms 0.0ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
cpp 1.cpp 120ms 1.2ms 3.6MB 110ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 132ms 1.5ms 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 470ms 3.9ms 3.4MB 1817ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 483ms 0.5ms 2.1MB 1883ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 927ms 14ms 3.5MB 3627ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 930ms 9.8ms 2.1MB 3640ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
zig 1.zig 3690ms 5.3ms 1.4MB 3680ms 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 1.8ms 3.6MB 457ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 127ms 1.2ms 2.0MB 477ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 237ms 0.4ms 3.4MB 903ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 239ms 0.7ms 2.0MB 917ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
zig 1.zig 923ms 2.2ms 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 37ms 1.6ms 3.4MB 110ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 39ms 0.2ms 2.0MB 130ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 65ms 0.1ms 3.5MB 227ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 68ms 0.6ms 2.0MB 243ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
zig 1.zig 234ms 1.1ms 1.3MB 230ms 0ms zig 0.14.0