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OCaml VS Zig benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon May 19 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 1831ms 43ms 49.0MB 1800ms 17ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 3022ms 19ms 157.1MB 2943ms 60ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 155ms 3.9ms 7.0MB 143ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 219ms 1.7ms 19.1MB 200ms 3ms 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 636ms 3.6ms 1.4MB 2397ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 1778ms 22ms 1.0MB 1770ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 2715ms 13ms 1.0MB 2707ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 2.ml 2919ms 5.3ms 4.9MB 2907ms 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 59ms 1.9ms 1.4MB 200ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 147ms 0.5ms 1.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 227ms 0.9ms 1.0MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 2.ml 245ms 3.9ms 4.9MB 233ms 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 87ms 1.5ms 1.0MB 80ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 6.ml 346ms 1.0ms 24.9MB 333ms 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 0.14.0
ocaml 6.ml 39ms 0.8ms 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
zig 1.zig 0.9ms 0.0ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 1.8ms 0.1ms 5.1MB 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 1.1ms 2.8MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 178ms 7.5ms 6.6MB 167ms 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 94ms 3.9ms 2.8MB 87ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 536ms 22ms 6.6MB 527ms 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 1.3ms 1.3MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 77ms 1.7ms 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
zig 1.zig 859ms 8.1ms 41.0MB 830ms 17ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 1089ms 3.3ms 70.2MB 1053ms 20ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 2063ms 7.0ms 91.8MB 2010ms 40ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 147ms 2.5ms 21.7MB 130ms 3ms ocaml 5.3.0
zig 1.zig 175ms 1.5ms 11.0MB 163ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 2.ml 366ms 7.2ms 27.6MB 343ms 10ms 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 0.9ms 1.0MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 279ms 0.5ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 315ms 1.1ms 1.1MB 310ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 379ms 1.8ms 5.2MB 370ms 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 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.4ms 1.1MB 30ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 41ms 1.5ms 5.3MB 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 259ms 2.9ms 40.2MB 243ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 330ms 0.5ms 6.0MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 940ms 9.1ms 541.2MB 883ms 43ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 1904ms 37ms 19.0MB 1893ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 51ms 2.6ms 10.9MB 40ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 81ms 0.8ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 1.ml 178ms 1.2ms 142.2MB 157ms 10ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 471ms 3.6ms 9.1MB 460ms 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 462.8MB 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 549ms 15ms 57.1MB 513ms 23ms 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 3690ms 7.6ms 1.4MB 3680ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 2.ml 4567ms 9.8ms 6.3MB 4560ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 923ms 1.2ms 1.3MB 910ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 2.ml 1147ms 4.8ms 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 232ms 0.7ms 1.3MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
ocaml 2.ml 295ms 7.0ms 5.2MB 287ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0