Perl VS D 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
d 1.d 1781ms 9.7ms 312.7MB 1753ms 37ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 3029ms 5.2ms 314.9MB 3207ms 50ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 162ms 2.9ms 209.9MB 137ms 13ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 261ms 2.3ms 212.1MB 237ms 10ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 156ms 2.3ms 2.9MB 147ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 640ms 0.8ms 4.6MB 630ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 19ms 0.4ms 3.0MB 10ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 68ms 1.3ms 4.9MB 60ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 1.6ms 0.1ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 2.1ms 0.2ms 5.0MB 0ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
d 2.d 361ms 0.8ms 2.9MB 350ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 362ms 1.7ms 2.9MB 350ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 689ms 3.9ms 4.6MB 680ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
d 2.d 2028ms 2.4ms 4.8MB 2020ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 39ms 0.4ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 2.d 39ms 0.5ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 71ms 0.7ms 4.6MB 60ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
d 2.d 207ms 2.0ms 4.8MB 200ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 3597ms 3.3ms 3.9MB 3583ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 3641ms 25ms 6.0MB 3633ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 902ms 0.9ms 3.5MB 890ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 928ms 5.7ms 5.3MB 917ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
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
d 1.d 230ms 0.6ms 3.0MB 220ms 0ms ldc2 1.40.1
d 1.d 234ms 2.3ms 5.0MB 223ms 0ms dmd 2.111.0
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 24ms 9.6MB 13197ms 10ms perl 5.40.1