Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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
go 1-m.go 2667ms 12ms 46.1MB 5630ms 43ms go 1.23.5
go 1.go 3307ms 115ms 51.6MB 3293ms 0ms tinygo 0.35.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4960ms 27ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 232ms 1.0ms 7.0MB 220ms 0ms tinygo 0.35.0
go 1-m.go 238ms 1.1ms 9.8MB 397ms 7ms go 1.23.5
perl 1.pl 1798ms 12ms 14.4MB 1787ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 127ms 2.7ms 5.4MB 403ms 0ms go 1.23.5
perl 1.pl 3604ms 17ms 10.9MB 3590ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 18ms 0.6ms 5.4MB 37ms 0ms go 1.23.5
perl 1.pl 383ms 27ms 6.5MB 367ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.6ms 0.0ms 0.1MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.35.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.0ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.23.5
perl 1.pl 2.8ms 0.4ms 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
go 1.go 348ms 1.7ms 0.1MB 337ms 0ms tinygo 0.35.0
go 1.go 371ms 12ms 3.4MB 360ms 0ms go 1.23.5
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4987ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 37ms 1.4ms 0.1MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.35.0
go 1.go 40ms 1.2ms 3.4MB 30ms 0ms go 1.23.5
perl 2.pl 2757ms 41ms 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
go 4-m.go 1892ms 1.2ms 5.5MB 7360ms 13ms go 1.23.5
go 1.go 3668ms 14ms 5.5MB 3660ms 3ms go 1.23.5
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 2.2MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.35.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 13.8MB 19717ms 23ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 479ms 1.8ms 5.5MB 1813ms 0ms go 1.23.5
go 1.go 931ms 2.4ms 3.4MB 923ms 0ms go 1.23.5
go 1.go 1389ms 0.7ms 2.3MB 1380ms 0ms tinygo 0.35.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.0MB 19480ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 126ms 0.3ms 5.4MB 437ms 7ms go 1.23.5
go 1.go 234ms 5.1ms 3.4MB 220ms 0ms go 1.23.5
go 1.go 350ms 0.4ms 0.3MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.35.0
perl 4-m.pl 3392ms 3.3ms 12.4MB 13083ms 10ms perl 5.40.1