Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

OCaml VS Perl benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Mar 25 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
ocaml 1.ml 3139ms 30ms 157.2MB 3050ms 73ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4960ms 30ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 228ms 11ms 19.2MB 213ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 1.pl 1816ms 9.0ms 14.4MB 1800ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 2918ms 4.8ms 4.9MB 2910ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 245ms 1.4ms 4.9MB 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 345ms 0.3ms 24.8MB 330ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 1.pl 3618ms 13ms 10.9MB 3603ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 6.ml 39ms 0.3ms 7.3MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 1.pl 371ms 4.1ms 6.6MB 357ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 1.9ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 1.pl 2.8ms 0.4ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 178ms 2.2ms 6.4MB 170ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 535ms 18ms 6.6MB 523ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 77ms 0.5ms 6.1MB 70ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 1104ms 1.1ms 70.3MB 1060ms 30ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 2279ms 5.8ms 91.8MB 2220ms 43ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 149ms 3.1ms 21.6MB 130ms 7ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 396ms 3.4ms 27.7MB 377ms 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 0.4ms 5.3MB 367ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4987ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 41ms 0.7ms 5.2MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 2.pl 2765ms 27ms 6.1MB 2753ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 1019ms 4.4ms 544.4MB 960ms 43ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 1896ms 11ms 17.2MB 1883ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 197ms 0.6ms 128.8MB 173ms 10ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 469ms 5.3ms 9.1MB 457ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml timeout 0.0ms 462.7MB 4810ms 173ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 550ms 6.1ms 57.1MB 507ms 27ms ocaml 5.3.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 4585ms 15ms 6.4MB 4573ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.9MB 19793ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 1148ms 6.8ms 6.1MB 1140ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.1MB 19593ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 296ms 5.1ms 5.2MB 287ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 4-m.pl 3419ms 23ms 9.5MB 13247ms 10ms perl 5.40.1