Odin 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
odin 1.odin 2353ms 5.8ms 49.5MB 2323ms 17ms odin 2024

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
odin 1.odin 221ms 2.6ms 7.5MB 210ms 0ms odin 2024

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
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 33ms 1.1ms 2.8MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 147ms 2.3ms 1.6MB 140ms 0ms odin 2024

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
odin 1.odin 436ms 0.4ms 1.6MB 430ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 16ms 1.3ms 1.3MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 68ms 2.1ms 1.6MB 60ms 0ms odin 2024

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 248ms 0.8ms 4.1MB 240ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 288ms 4.1ms 4.6MB 280ms 0ms odin 2024

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 12ms 0.1ms 1.1MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 14ms 0.1ms 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 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
odin 1.odin 355ms 2.5ms 1.5MB 347ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1-i.odin 358ms 2.5ms 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 1.0MB 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
odin 1-i.odin 38ms 0.7ms 1.5MB 30ms 0ms odin 2024
odin 1.odin 38ms 0.8ms 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 259ms 2.9ms 40.2MB 243ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 1.odin 273ms 6.3ms 40.6MB 257ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 2.zig 330ms 0.5ms 6.0MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 2.odin 699ms 33ms 6.5MB 690ms 0ms odin 2024

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
odin 1.odin 54ms 0.5ms 11.3MB 43ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 2.zig 81ms 0.8ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
odin 2.odin 180ms 9.5ms 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 3596ms 2.6ms 2.9MB 3587ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 1.zig 3690ms 7.6ms 1.4MB 3680ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 900ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 890ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 1.zig 923ms 1.2ms 1.3MB 910ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
odin 1.odin 227ms 1.0ms 1.9MB 220ms 0ms odin 2024
zig 1.zig 232ms 0.7ms 1.3MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.14.0