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OCaml VS Zig 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
zig 1.zig 1872ms 186ms 49.0MB 1840ms 17ms zig 0.14.1
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
zig 1.zig 152ms 2.9ms 7.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
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
zig 2-m.zig 637ms 8.5ms 1.4MB 2413ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 3-i.zig 1765ms 1.9ms 1.0MB 1757ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 1.zig 2719ms 3.6ms 1.0MB 2710ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 2.ml 2909ms 4.1ms 4.9MB 2903ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 60ms 0.6ms 1.4MB 200ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 3-i.zig 147ms 0.3ms 1.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 1.zig 229ms 2.1ms 1.0MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
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
zig 1.zig 88ms 0.8ms 1.0MB 80ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 6.ml 346ms 1.9ms 24.8MB 330ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 11ms 0.8ms 1.0MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 6.ml 39ms 0.7ms 7.4MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 0.9ms 0.0ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 1.ml 1.8ms 0.1ms 5.0MB 0ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 33ms 1.2ms 2.8MB 27ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 1.ml 173ms 2.7ms 6.4MB 163ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 95ms 1.5ms 2.8MB 87ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 1.ml 532ms 18ms 6.6MB 520ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 16ms 1.1ms 1.3MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 1.ml 78ms 0.4ms 6.2MB 70ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 866ms 9.9ms 41.0MB 833ms 17ms zig 0.14.1
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
ocaml 1.ml 144ms 1.4ms 21.7MB 127ms 3ms ocaml 5.3.0
zig 1.zig 175ms 2.1ms 11.0MB 160ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
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
zig 3.zig 198ms 1.1ms 1.0MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 2.zig 280ms 0.5ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 1.zig 315ms 0.8ms 1.1MB 303ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 1.ml 374ms 2.6ms 5.2MB 367ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 22ms 0.3ms 1.0MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.6ms 1.1MB 30ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 1.ml 40ms 0.1ms 5.2MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 270ms 5.1ms 40.2MB 257ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 2.zig 330ms 3.2ms 6.0MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
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
zig 1.zig 52ms 2.0ms 10.9MB 40ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
zig 2.zig 80ms 1.1ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
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
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

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 3686ms 3.7ms 1.4MB 3677ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 2.ml 4558ms 6.5ms 6.3MB 4543ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 925ms 2.6ms 1.3MB 917ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 2.ml 1146ms 5.3ms 6.1MB 1137ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 235ms 0.4ms 1.3MB 230ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
ocaml 2.ml 296ms 9.1ms 5.2MB 287ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0