Perl VS D benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jun 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
d 1.d 1768ms 21ms 312.6MB 1733ms 40ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 3074ms 138ms 314.1MB 3237ms 53ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4960ms 27ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 166ms 2.1ms 207.9MB 140ms 17ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 262ms 3.0ms 211.1MB 233ms 20ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 1.pl 1815ms 12ms 14.4MB 1800ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 156ms 2.4ms 2.9MB 147ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 647ms 7.8ms 4.8MB 633ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 1.pl 3556ms 18ms 10.9MB 3543ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 18ms 0.7ms 2.9MB 10ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 67ms 0.5ms 4.8MB 60ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 1.pl 367ms 3.7ms 6.6MB 357ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 1.6ms 0.1ms 3.0MB 0ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 2.0ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.3ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 360ms 0.7ms 2.9MB 350ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 2.d 361ms 1.1ms 2.9MB 350ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 678ms 10ms 4.8MB 670ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
d 2.d 2037ms 13ms 4.6MB 2027ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 39ms 0.3ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 2.d 39ms 0.4ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 71ms 1.0ms 4.8MB 60ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
d 2.d 210ms 0.8ms 4.6MB 200ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 2.pl 2719ms 106ms 6.1MB 2707ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 3595ms 3.6ms 4.0MB 3587ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 3642ms 31ms 5.9MB 3633ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.9MB 19830ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 901ms 2.0ms 3.5MB 890ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 930ms 9.2ms 5.4MB 920ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19553ms 10ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 1.d 228ms 0.6ms 3.0MB 220ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 234ms 1.3ms 4.9MB 223ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 4-m.pl 3429ms 2.4ms 9.5MB 13317ms 7ms perl 5.40.2