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Nim VS Rust benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Oct 03 2022, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][2 cores] Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8370C CPU @ 2.80GHz (Model 106)

* -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
rust 4.rs 1546ms 1.5ms 33.7MB 1523ms 7ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 5.rs 1738ms 4.2ms 33.8MB 1713ms 3ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 3.rs 1832ms 14ms 49.8MB 1807ms 13ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 3377ms 55ms 34.4MB 3353ms 7ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 2.nim 3539ms 69ms 35.1MB 3510ms 13ms nim 1.6.8

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 4.rs 141ms 1.9ms 5.7MB 130ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 5.rs 158ms 1.3ms 5.6MB 150ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 3.rs 164ms 3.7ms 7.9MB 147ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 319ms 3.0ms 5.7MB 307ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 2.nim 330ms 0.7ms 5.4MB 317ms 0ms nim 1.6.8

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 3-m.rs 949ms 23ms 6.1MB 1817ms 30ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 5-m.rs 1215ms 288ms 5.3MB 2340ms 30ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 3.rs 1824ms 8.8ms 6.5MB 1783ms 27ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 1-m.rs 2566ms 12ms 5.2MB 4930ms 103ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 4.rs 3186ms 0.9ms 4.3MB 3170ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 3-m.rs 74ms 2.9ms 2.9MB 123ms 3ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 5-m.rs 80ms 16ms 3.0MB 127ms 3ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 3.rs 118ms 0.5ms 3.2MB 103ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 1-m.rs 193ms 9.3ms 2.8MB 320ms 20ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 4.rs 210ms 0.2ms 2.5MB 200ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 147ms 0.7ms 3.6MB 140ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 2.rs 600ms 1.4ms 3.7MB 587ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 41ms 0.7ms 3.0MB 30ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 2.rs 113ms 0.1ms 3.3MB 107ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 5c-m.rs 182ms 3.7ms 1.3MB 317ms 3ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 5-m.rs 202ms 2.7ms 1.2MB 360ms 3ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 1c.rs 227ms 0.9ms 0.6MB 217ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
nim 2.nim 257ms 0.4ms 0.7MB 250ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
rust 1.rs 316ms 1.8ms 0.6MB 303ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 339ms 2.7ms 1.0MB 327ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 786ms 1.8ms 0.6MB 683ms 80ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 809ms 2.8ms 1.0MB 720ms 70ms nim/clang 1.6.8

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1c.rs 27ms 0.4ms 0.7MB 17ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 5c-m.rs 28ms 2.7ms 1.2MB 37ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 5-m.rs 29ms 1.0ms 1.2MB 37ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 29ms 0.4ms 0.7MB 20ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
rust 1.rs 35ms 0.5ms 0.6MB 23ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 37ms 0.6ms 0.9MB 30ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 83ms 0.4ms 1.0MB 67ms 3ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 84ms 4.0ms 0.7MB 67ms 3ms nim 1.6.8

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
nim 1.nim 1.6ms 0.4ms 0.7MB 0ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
rust 1.rs 1.9ms 0.8ms 0.6MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
nim 1.nim 1.9ms 0.7ms 1.0MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
rust 1.rs 2.2ms 0.8ms 0.6MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0

http-server

Input: 3000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 133ms 16ms 23.0MB 87ms 77ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 2-http2.rs 350ms 37ms 47.0MB 467ms 113ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 2-m.rs 491ms 5.2ms 112.1MB 287ms 473ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 731ms 2.3ms 94.2MB 330ms 367ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 735ms 1.5ms 94.3MB 297ms 407ms nim/clang 1.6.8
rust 1-http2.rs 1056ms 219ms 82.7MB 1453ms 437ms rustc 1.64.0

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 64ms 7.7ms 13.4MB 20ms 17ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 2.rs 123ms 6.2ms 29.8MB 30ms 90ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 123ms 0.9ms 18.3MB 53ms 57ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 125ms 0.9ms 18.7MB 40ms 67ms nim/clang 1.6.8
rust 2-http2.rs 317ms 58ms 29.1MB 460ms 80ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 1-http2.rs 382ms 48ms 28.4MB 563ms 97ms rustc 1.64.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 0-unsafe.rs 63ms 2.4ms 0.6MB 53ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 1.rs 87ms 4.7ms 2.1MB 77ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 147ms 0.8ms 1.0MB 140ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 2.nim 158ms 1.3ms 0.7MB 150ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 0-unsafe.rs 205ms 4.3ms 0.6MB 190ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 1.rs 290ms 20ms 2.1MB 280ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 434ms 0.5ms 0.9MB 420ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 2.nim 466ms 0.8ms 0.7MB 457ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 0-unsafe.rs 35ms 0.9ms 0.6MB 27ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 1.rs 44ms 0.1ms 0.6MB 40ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 65ms 0.6ms 1.0MB 53ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 2.nim 68ms 0.9ms 0.6MB 60ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 419ms 6.5ms 1.0MB 407ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 448ms 0.6ms 0.7MB 440ms 0ms nim 1.6.8

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 9.rs 414ms 0.8ms 4.8MB 400ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
nim 1.nim 575ms 0.8ms 4.9MB 563ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
rust 8.rs 580ms 0.1ms 4.9MB 567ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 996ms 0.9ms 4.5MB 983ms 0ms nim 1.6.8

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 9.rs 21ms 1.3ms 0.6MB 10ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
nim 1.nim 27ms 0.3ms 2.0MB 20ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
rust 8.rs 31ms 5.0ms 0.6MB 23ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 44ms 0.9ms 0.7MB 33ms 0ms nim 1.6.8

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 892ms 8.0ms 33.9MB 867ms 13ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 1605ms 45ms 34.8MB 1583ms 3ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 1659ms 3.2ms 35.1MB 1637ms 3ms nim 1.6.8

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 185ms 2.7ms 9.9MB 170ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 340ms 1.1ms 9.9MB 327ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 359ms 2.9ms 9.3MB 343ms 0ms nim 1.6.8

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 4-i.rs 252ms 0.2ms 0.6MB 240ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 7-i.rs 305ms 0.5ms 0.6MB 290ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 3.rs 338ms 0.2ms 0.6MB 330ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 2.rs 341ms 5.7ms 0.6MB 330ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 1.rs 384ms 0.6ms 0.6MB 370ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 405ms 1.0ms 1.0MB 393ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 2.nim 428ms 0.3ms 1.0MB 413ms 0ms nim 1.6.8

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 4-i.rs 28ms 0.8ms 0.6MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 7-i.rs 33ms 0.5ms 0.6MB 23ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 3.rs 36ms 0.5ms 0.7MB 30ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 2.rs 38ms 2.1ms 0.6MB 30ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 1.rs 41ms 0.6ms 0.6MB 30ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 46ms 0.7ms 1.0MB 37ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 2.nim 47ms 4.8ms 1.0MB 33ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 2.rs 462ms 1.4ms 6.7MB 450ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 588ms 1.8ms 6.4MB 577ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 2.nim 642ms 0.9ms 6.0MB 630ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 665ms 15ms 41.1MB 643ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 734ms 6.6ms 40.6MB 713ms 3ms nim/clang 1.6.8
rust 1.rs 736ms 47ms 40.9MB 713ms 7ms rustc 1.64.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 2.rs 107ms 1.4ms 3.1MB 97ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 122ms 0.5ms 11.1MB 110ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 128ms 0.3ms 11.4MB 117ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
rust 1.rs 131ms 1.2ms 11.5MB 120ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 2.nim 140ms 0.6ms 3.2MB 130ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 2.nim 153ms 1.0ms 2.9MB 140ms 0ms nim 1.6.8

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 1934ms 3.2ms 2.8MB 1750ms 167ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 2.rs 1947ms 0.7ms 2.9MB 1877ms 53ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 393ms 1.0ms 2.6MB 377ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 2.rs 435ms 0.5ms 2.6MB 423ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 7.rs 565ms 12ms 77.5MB 720ms 13ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 2569ms 0.7ms 167.2MB 2520ms 30ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 2574ms 3.7ms 167.2MB 2527ms 33ms nim 1.6.8

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 7.rs 63ms 1.1ms 11.9MB 73ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 265ms 1.4ms 17.0MB 250ms 3ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 266ms 2.0ms 16.7MB 250ms 3ms nim 1.6.8

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 7-m.rs 1059ms 1.5ms 2.3MB 2053ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 8-m.rs 1069ms 15ms 2.5MB 2047ms 7ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 7.rs 2060ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 2050ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 8.rs 2060ms 0.2ms 2.5MB 2050ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 2134ms 15ms 2.2MB 4147ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 4121ms 3.1ms 1.9MB 4107ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 4122ms 2.2ms 1.8MB 4107ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
rust 2.rs timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 7-m.rs 273ms 0.8ms 0.7MB 507ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 8-m.rs 277ms 5.0ms 2.4MB 513ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 8.rs 517ms 0.3ms 2.2MB 507ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 7.rs 518ms 0.3ms 0.6MB 510ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 2-m.rs 540ms 1.6ms 2.2MB 1030ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 1032ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 1020ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 1032ms 0.5ms 0.9MB 1020ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
rust 2.rs 1707ms 4.3ms 0.6MB 1697ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 8-m.rs 76ms 1.1ms 2.3MB 127ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 77ms 2.6ms 0.7MB 130ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 7.rs 132ms 0.9ms 0.6MB 120ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0
rust 8.rs 134ms 2.9ms 2.2MB 120ms 0ms rustc 1.66.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 143ms 0.5ms 0.7MB 250ms 3ms rustc 1.64.0
nim 1.nim 260ms 0.9ms 1.0MB 250ms 0ms nim 1.6.8
nim 1.nim 261ms 1.0ms 1.0MB 250ms 0ms nim/clang 1.6.8
rust 2.rs 431ms 1.5ms 0.6MB 420ms 0ms rustc 1.64.0