Programming Language and compiler
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Kotlin VS Zig benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Dec 31 2024, 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
kotlin 1.kt 455ms 16ms 575.5MB 540ms 63ms kotlin/jvm 21
zig 1.zig 1616ms 20ms 49.1MB 1590ms 10ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 2928ms 6.8ms 248.5MB 4967ms 627ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 95ms 2.4ms 158.2MB 103ms 23ms kotlin/jvm 21
zig 1.zig 142ms 0.5ms 7.1MB 130ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 257ms 6.2ms 32.6MB 400ms 63ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 2-m.kt 1799ms 182ms 235.5MB 6667ms 90ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt 2058ms 23ms 217.3MB 2833ms 57ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt timeout 0.0ms 14.8MB 6030ms 500ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2-m.kt timeout 0.0ms 52.1MB 19097ms 113ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 2-m.kt 366ms 8.9ms 38.2MB 1350ms 13ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 1-m.kt 450ms 15ms 73.3MB 1017ms 37ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt 646ms 7.8ms 10.8MB 807ms 53ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2-m.kt 757ms 71ms 99.7MB 2643ms 70ms kotlin/jvm 21

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 0.9ms 0.0ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1.kt 2.3ms 0.2ms 4.7MB 0ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 1.kt 55ms 4.2ms 47.4MB 46ms 14ms kotlin/jvm 21

http-server

Input: 3000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 2-m.kt 4837ms 51ms 400.1MB 14360ms 2470ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt timeout 0.0ms 405.3MB 16127ms 2747ms kotlin/jvm 21

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1-m.kt 2173ms 206ms 269.1MB 6403ms 597ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 2.kt 2226ms 288ms 241.9MB 2337ms 253ms kotlin/jvm 21

json-serde

Input: sample 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1-m.kt 863ms 53ms 202.0MB 2353ms 83ms kotlin/jvm 21

Input: canada 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1-m.kt 2217ms 99ms 784.2MB 4773ms 140ms kotlin/jvm 21

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 33ms 1.3ms 2.9MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 172ms 3.8ms 94.9MB 283ms 30ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 2-m.kt 188ms 5.4ms 102.2MB 397ms 30ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 2.kt 285ms 1.3ms 7.8MB 413ms 3ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 1.kt 501ms 15ms 7.8MB 600ms 7ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 90ms 3.0ms 2.9MB 83ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 2-m.kt 298ms 25ms 214.4MB 503ms 57ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt 308ms 0.6ms 204.7MB 413ms 40ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 2.kt 863ms 8.2ms 7.6MB 1240ms 50ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 1.kt 1456ms 8.2ms 7.9MB 1763ms 17ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 14ms 0.1ms 1.4MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 132ms 1.5ms 92.4MB 250ms 20ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 2.kt 134ms 3.9ms 5.7MB 190ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2-m.kt 159ms 9.9ms 90.8MB 307ms 27ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1.kt 162ms 4.0ms 5.8MB 207ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 329ms 3.6ms 677.6MB 360ms 70ms kotlin/jvm 21
zig 1.zig 790ms 14ms 41.1MB 763ms 10ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 1426ms 20ms 136.5MB 2193ms 330ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 122ms 2.0ms 206.5MB 157ms 23ms kotlin/jvm 21
zig 1.zig 160ms 1.9ms 11.1MB 147ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 283ms 1.7ms 40.4MB 410ms 57ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 258ms 1.8ms 1.1MB 247ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 300ms 6.3ms 1.3MB 290ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1n.kt 386ms 8.6ms 4.7MB 373ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 1.kt 422ms 3.5ms 49.7MB 463ms 13ms kotlin/jvm 21

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 27ms 0.1ms 1.1MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 33ms 0.3ms 1.3MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1n.kt 43ms 0.8ms 4.6MB 30ms 0ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 1.kt 112ms 0.7ms 49.4MB 150ms 17ms kotlin/jvm 21

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 2339ms 5.6ms 2.2MB 2307ms 17ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1.kt 3505ms 35ms 353.8MB 4313ms 93ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1n.kt timeout 0.0ms 7.5MB 6350ms 310ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2n.kt timeout 0.0ms 13.3MB 4990ms 177ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 536ms 2.8ms 1.8MB 520ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
kotlin 1-m.kt 939ms 37ms 355.0MB 1617ms 70ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1n.kt timeout 0.0ms 7.4MB 6420ms 257ms kotlin/native 1.8.21
kotlin 2n.kt timeout 0.0ms 8.2MB 5000ms 150ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt timeout 0.0ms 171.4MB 5370ms 43ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1n.kt timeout 0.0ms 278.9MB 5463ms 463ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1-m.kt 759ms 8.2ms 133.8MB 1143ms 27ms kotlin/jvm 21
kotlin 1n.kt 2968ms 26ms 65.1MB 3653ms 3ms kotlin/native 1.8.21

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1.kt 2939ms 35ms 231.8MB 3747ms 60ms kotlin/jvm 21

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
kotlin 1-m.kt 926ms 27ms 209.8MB 1550ms 43ms kotlin/jvm 21