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Haxe VS Zig benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Fri Aug 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.)

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 1290ms 13ms 144.0MB 1470ms 67ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
zig 1.zig 1735ms 12ms 49.0MB 1707ms 13ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 2.hx 4336ms 13ms 495.3MB 4867ms 253ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 48.6MB 5457ms 423ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 83.0MB 5003ms 683ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 51.1MB 7750ms 430ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 131.0MB 7297ms 770ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 88ms 0.4ms 25.6MB 77ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
zig 1.zig 150ms 1.6ms 7.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 2.hx 380ms 5.8ms 58.3MB 410ms 20ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 640ms 2.4ms 8.7MB 613ms 43ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 671ms 4.4ms 11.4MB 727ms 57ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0
haxe 2.hx 930ms 3.9ms 13.6MB 817ms 157ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 940ms 11ms 25.0MB 910ms 170ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 89ms 0.7ms 1.0MB 80ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 2378ms 10ms 25.6MB 2270ms 190ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.1MB 4333ms 880ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.6MB 4383ms 850ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 11ms 0.7ms 1.0MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 251ms 2.7ms 25.6MB 220ms 30ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 667ms 6.6ms 3.5MB 577ms 103ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 698ms 6.6ms 3.6MB 617ms 107ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 0.9ms 0.0ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 1.9ms 0.2ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2.3ms 0.3ms 4.4MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 3.4ms 0.4ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 33ms 1.4ms 2.8MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 134ms 1.8ms 20.4MB 120ms 7ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 135ms 0.3ms 3.3MB 127ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 157ms 3.8ms 3.8MB 147ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 94ms 3.0ms 2.8MB 87ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 378ms 5.6ms 25.5MB 363ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 398ms 6.1ms 3.1MB 387ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 459ms 7.2ms 3.8MB 450ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 15ms 0.5ms 1.3MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 63ms 0.7ms 12.3MB 50ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 67ms 0.6ms 3.0MB 60ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 77ms 0.7ms 3.6MB 70ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 860ms 0.1ms 41.0MB 830ms 13ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 908ms 5.7ms 94.9MB 1010ms 40ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 32.5MB 4877ms 553ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 55.1MB 5960ms 490ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 170ms 4.0ms 26.6MB 173ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
zig 1.zig 179ms 1.9ms 11.0MB 163ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 1306ms 1.8ms 10.8MB 1253ms 140ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1322ms 7.0ms 20.2MB 1330ms 127ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 198ms 0.5ms 1.0MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 2.zig 279ms 0.5ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 1.zig 315ms 0.9ms 1.1MB 310ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 2.hx 856ms 3.6ms 3.0MB 847ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1084ms 8.6ms 3.0MB 1073ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 1407ms 30ms 25.6MB 1560ms 30ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 2414ms 4.4ms 3.6MB 2403ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0
haxe 1.hx 2476ms 3.3ms 3.6MB 2467ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.4MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.5MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.2MB 3920ms 1573ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.9MB 4133ms 1323ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 22ms 0.4ms 1.0MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 1.zig 33ms 0.3ms 1.1MB 30ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 2.hx 88ms 0.2ms 3.0MB 80ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 111ms 2.9ms 3.1MB 103ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 153ms 2.6ms 25.6MB 147ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 244ms 1.1ms 3.6MB 237ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0
haxe 1.hx 253ms 2.2ms 3.6MB 243ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0
haxe 2.hx 674ms 7.0ms 4.4MB 663ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 676ms 2.5ms 3.3MB 530ms 203ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 795ms 13ms 3.8MB 643ms 210ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0
haxe 1.hx 812ms 5.7ms 4.4MB 803ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 3687ms 4.1ms 1.4MB 3677ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 3897ms 3.5ms 3.4MB 3883ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 7.0MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.9MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 928ms 2.8ms 1.3MB 920ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 987ms 3.6ms 3.2MB 977ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2398ms 1.7ms 6.5MB 2387ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.8MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 232ms 0.3ms 1.3MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
haxe 1.hx 250ms 1.8ms 3.0MB 240ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 602ms 0.3ms 5.4MB 590ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2306ms 17ms 3.8MB 2297ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.16.0