Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Chapel benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sat Mar 29 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 1958ms 4.8ms 62.3MB 1947ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 2059ms 4.1ms 62.3MB 2053ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4963ms 27ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 4.chpl 185ms 2.7ms 32.3MB 180ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 3.chpl 190ms 1.5ms 32.2MB 183ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 1805ms 9.4ms 14.4MB 1790ms 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 106ms 0.9ms 28.4MB 190ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 3618ms 29ms 10.9MB 3607ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5.chpl 23ms 2.1ms 28.4MB 20ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 1.pl 369ms 1.3ms 6.6MB 360ms 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 2.6ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
chapel 1.chpl 11ms 0.3ms 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 2.3ms 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 44ms 1.5ms 29.0MB 40ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 2.pl 2754ms 16ms 6.1MB 2743ms 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 1924ms 19ms 28.9MB 3827ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 3722ms 4.8ms 28.8MB 3717ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.8MB 19777ms 7ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 490ms 0.4ms 28.9MB 953ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 943ms 3.9ms 28.8MB 940ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.3MB 19540ms 17ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 135ms 1.0ms 28.9MB 243ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
chapel 1.chpl 246ms 0.4ms 28.8MB 240ms 0ms chpl 1.31.0
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 19ms 9.6MB 13200ms 10ms perl 5.40.1