Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Chapel benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Fri Aug 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
chapel 4.chpl 1943ms 3.5ms 62.3MB 1937ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2057ms 34ms 62.4MB 2050ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4960ms 23ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 4.chpl 185ms 1.5ms 32.4MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 188ms 2.4ms 32.3MB 187ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 1828ms 6.1ms 14.4MB 1813ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 106ms 1.0ms 28.4MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 3986ms 706ms 10.9MB 3973ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5.chpl 20ms 1.0ms 28.4MB 20ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 369ms 7.7ms 6.6MB 360ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.4ms 0.1ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
chapel 1.chpl 10ms 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 324ms 1.7ms 28.8MB 320ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4990ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 43ms 1.3ms 28.8MB 40ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 2.pl 2772ms 20ms 6.1MB 2760ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1914ms 2.2ms 29.0MB 3800ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 3718ms 16ms 28.8MB 3713ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.8MB 19817ms 7ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 491ms 2.1ms 29.0MB 953ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 945ms 5.5ms 28.6MB 940ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19533ms 7ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 132ms 0.5ms 28.9MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 246ms 3.8ms 28.8MB 243ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4-m.pl 3437ms 29ms 9.6MB 13277ms 10ms perl 5.40.2