Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Dart benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jul 13 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
dart 1.dart 716ms 2.4ms 80.9MB 690ms 30ms dart/exe 3.8.1
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4963ms 23ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 77ms 1.4ms 42.8MB 50ms 17ms dart/exe 3.8.1
perl 1.pl 1814ms 11ms 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
dart 1.dart 362ms 2.6ms 8.8MB 347ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
perl 1.pl 3699ms 175ms 10.9MB 3687ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 41ms 0.1ms 8.8MB 30ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
perl 1.pl 365ms 1.2ms 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
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.4ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
dart 1.dart 3.7ms 0.3ms 5.7MB 0ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 3.dart 411ms 3.9ms 6.1MB 400ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
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
dart 3.dart 45ms 0.7ms 6.3MB 40ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
perl 2.pl 2731ms 3.5ms 6.1MB 2723ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 3748ms 2.0ms 6.4MB 3740ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
dart 2.dart 4934ms 6.4ms 6.4MB 4923ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19643ms 7ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 939ms 0.1ms 6.3MB 930ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
dart 2.dart 1238ms 0.9ms 6.4MB 1230ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19530ms 3ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 240ms 2.1ms 6.3MB 230ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
dart 2.dart 315ms 2.5ms 6.1MB 303ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
perl 4-m.pl 3449ms 32ms 9.4MB 13333ms 3ms perl 5.40.2