OCaml VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Apr 14 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
wasm 4.rs 1823ms 9.8ms 33.2MB 1800ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1857ms 49ms 49.2MB 1830ms 17ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 5.rs 1918ms 279ms 33.1MB 1893ms 7ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 3140ms 30ms 157.0MB 3057ms 70ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 169ms 0.6ms 19.2MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 181ms 4.3ms 21.2MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 192ms 31ms 19.1MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 226ms 2.6ms 19.2MB 210ms 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 2917ms 2.7ms 4.9MB 2907ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 4206ms 2.3ms 16.7MB 4190ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 249ms 3.0ms 4.9MB 240ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 355ms 3.1ms 16.8MB 340ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 236ms 2.4ms 17.2MB 220ms 3ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 6.ml 345ms 0.4ms 24.9MB 333ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 32ms 0.4ms 17.4MB 20ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 6.ml 39ms 0.6ms 7.5MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 1.9ms 0.0ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 6.6ms 0.4ms 17.3MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 89ms 2.0ms 17.6MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 188ms 1.5ms 6.4MB 180ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 249ms 1.0ms 16.9MB 240ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 542ms 24ms 6.6MB 530ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 47ms 1.0ms 17.3MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 78ms 1.1ms 5.9MB 70ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 885ms 5.7ms 41.3MB 857ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 1141ms 35ms 70.2MB 1100ms 30ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 2156ms 13ms 91.8MB 2103ms 37ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 161ms 4.4ms 21.6MB 143ms 7ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 195ms 4.3ms 23.3MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 2.ml 362ms 1.5ms 27.7MB 343ms 3ms 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 1.4ms 5.3MB 363ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 400ms 1.5ms 17.1MB 390ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 582ms 0.4ms 17.2MB 570ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 41ms 1.6ms 5.2MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 1.rs 48ms 0.4ms 17.0MB 40ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 65ms 0.1ms 17.1MB 53ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 372ms 4.5ms 22.0MB 360ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 1.rs 481ms 4.7ms 56.1MB 463ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 1018ms 5.8ms 550.4MB 963ms 40ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 1884ms 9.4ms 17.2MB 1867ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 97ms 1.6ms 27.0MB 83ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 98ms 1.4ms 18.3MB 83ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 1.ml 203ms 4.9ms 140.7MB 183ms 10ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 463ms 1.3ms 9.1MB 450ms 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 462.9MB 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 551ms 8.1ms 57.1MB 517ms 23ms ocaml 5.3.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 3601ms 2.7ms 16.9MB 3587ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 2.ml 4555ms 3.1ms 6.3MB 4543ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 7.rs 4897ms 8.1ms 16.8MB 4880ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 908ms 1.2ms 16.9MB 897ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 2.ml 1144ms 2.0ms 6.1MB 1137ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 7.rs 1232ms 2.1ms 16.8MB 1220ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 235ms 2.0ms 16.7MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
ocaml 2.ml 294ms 3.8ms 5.2MB 287ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
wasm 7.rs 315ms 1.3ms 17.3MB 300ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0