Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Chapel 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
chapel 4.chpl 2067ms 198ms 62.3MB 2057ms 7ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2195ms 24ms 60.3MB 2187ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4957ms 30ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 186ms 2.0ms 30.3MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 4.chpl 186ms 2.6ms 32.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 1814ms 6.8ms 14.4MB 1800ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 107ms 1.8ms 28.4MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 3655ms 59ms 10.9MB 3640ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5.chpl 22ms 1.7ms 28.4MB 20ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 377ms 6.8ms 6.6MB 363ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
chapel 1.chpl 11ms 0.5ms 28.8MB 0ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 323ms 1.8ms 28.8MB 317ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4990ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 45ms 0.5ms 28.9MB 40ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 2.pl 2936ms 340ms 6.1MB 2927ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1926ms 20ms 28.8MB 3823ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 3715ms 1.4ms 28.6MB 3710ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.8MB 19750ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 492ms 0.1ms 28.9MB 960ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 944ms 5.1ms 28.8MB 937ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.1MB 19607ms 7ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 134ms 1.9ms 28.8MB 247ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 249ms 4.1ms 28.8MB 247ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 24ms 9.6MB 13197ms 10ms perl 5.40.1