OCaml VS Dart benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jul 13 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
dart 1.dart 716ms 2.4ms 80.9MB 690ms 30ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 1.ml 3087ms 52ms 157.2MB 3003ms 70ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 77ms 1.4ms 42.8MB 50ms 17ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 1.ml 221ms 1.6ms 19.1MB 207ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 2909ms 4.1ms 4.9MB 2903ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 2.dart 2931ms 12ms 6.3MB 2923ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 235ms 1.2ms 6.1MB 223ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 2.ml 245ms 0.8ms 5.2MB 237ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 6.ml 346ms 1.9ms 24.8MB 330ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 1.dart 362ms 2.6ms 8.8MB 347ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 6.ml 39ms 0.7ms 7.4MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 1.dart 41ms 0.1ms 8.8MB 30ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 1.8ms 0.1ms 5.0MB 0ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 1.dart 3.7ms 0.3ms 5.7MB 0ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 166ms 4.9ms 9.1MB 153ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 1.ml 173ms 2.7ms 6.4MB 163ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 1.dart 572ms 3.4ms 9.1MB 557ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 484ms 7.2ms 9.1MB 477ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 1.ml 532ms 18ms 6.6MB 520ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 1.dart 1699ms 6.4ms 9.3MB 1683ms 3ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 78ms 0.7ms 9.0MB 67ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 1.ml 78ms 0.4ms 6.2MB 70ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 1.dart 118ms 2.2ms 9.1MB 107ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 322ms 2.5ms 63.6MB 300ms 23ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 1.ml 1077ms 22ms 70.2MB 1037ms 27ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 2068ms 35ms 91.8MB 2017ms 37ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 85ms 1.9ms 43.8MB 60ms 17ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 1.ml 144ms 1.4ms 21.7MB 127ms 3ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 359ms 6.4ms 27.7MB 340ms 7ms ocaml 5.3.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 374ms 2.6ms 5.2MB 367ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 3.dart 411ms 3.9ms 6.1MB 400ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 40ms 0.1ms 5.2MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 3.dart 45ms 0.7ms 6.3MB 40ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 945ms 11ms 547.9MB 883ms 47ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 1884ms 7.1ms 17.2MB 1870ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 178ms 0.8ms 142.3MB 153ms 10ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 464ms 1.5ms 9.3MB 453ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart timeout 0.0ms 130.1MB 4963ms 40ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 2.ml timeout 0.0ms 462.9MB 4830ms 157ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 542ms 2.0ms 57.1MB 510ms 17ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 1.dart 635ms 1.3ms 43.1MB 607ms 17ms dart/exe 3.8.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 3748ms 2.0ms 6.4MB 3740ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 2.ml 4558ms 6.5ms 6.3MB 4543ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 2.dart 4934ms 6.4ms 6.4MB 4923ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 939ms 0.1ms 6.3MB 930ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 2.ml 1146ms 5.3ms 6.1MB 1137ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 2.dart 1238ms 0.9ms 6.4MB 1230ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 240ms 2.1ms 6.3MB 230ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
ocaml 2.ml 296ms 9.1ms 5.2MB 287ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
dart 2.dart 315ms 2.5ms 6.1MB 303ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1