Odin VS Zig benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu May 01 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 1721ms 8.7ms 49.0MB 1690ms 17ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 2300ms 35ms 49.5MB 2267ms 17ms odin 2024

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 156ms 0.8ms 7.0MB 147ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 219ms 3.5ms 7.5MB 207ms 0ms odin 2024

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 1.1ms 0.2ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 1.1ms 0.1ms 1.6MB 0ms 0ms odin 2024

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 35ms 2.4ms 2.8MB 27ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 156ms 3.3ms 1.6MB 150ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 91ms 1.2ms 2.8MB 80ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 458ms 2.9ms 1.6MB 450ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 16ms 1.2ms 1.3MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 71ms 1.8ms 1.6MB 63ms 0ms odin 2024

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 247ms 0.5ms 4.1MB 240ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 288ms 4.5ms 4.6MB 277ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 12ms 0.0ms 1.1MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 14ms 0.2ms 1.6MB 10ms 0ms odin 2024

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 198ms 1.2ms 1.0MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 279ms 0.4ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 315ms 1.0ms 1.1MB 307ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 355ms 2.4ms 1.5MB 347ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1-i.odin 358ms 2.1ms 1.5MB 350ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 22ms 0.3ms 1.1MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.6ms 1.1MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 38ms 0.9ms 1.5MB 30ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1-i.odin 38ms 1.6ms 1.5MB 30ms 0ms odin 2024

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 271ms 2.6ms 40.2MB 250ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 286ms 4.5ms 40.6MB 273ms 3ms odin 2024
zig 2.zig 328ms 2.4ms 6.0MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 2.odin 695ms 43ms 6.5MB 683ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 54ms 4.4ms 10.9MB 47ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 55ms 5.9ms 11.4MB 43ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 2.zig 81ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 2.odin 183ms 3.1ms 2.8MB 173ms 0ms odin 2024

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 3599ms 3.9ms 2.9MB 3590ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 1.zig 3689ms 4.3ms 1.4MB 3683ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 903ms 2.9ms 2.3MB 893ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 1.zig 923ms 3.3ms 1.3MB 913ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 228ms 0.8ms 1.9MB 220ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 1.zig 232ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.14.0