Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu May 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
go 1.go 1220ms 11ms 55.0MB 1197ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2348ms 15ms 40.2MB 5240ms 33ms go 1.24.2
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4963ms 27ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 113ms 1.8ms 5.6MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 208ms 0.9ms 8.1MB 367ms 7ms go 1.24.2
perl 1.pl 1824ms 8.8ms 14.4MB 1810ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 118ms 1.3ms 6.8MB 380ms 0ms go 1.24.2
perl 1.pl 3580ms 9.3ms 10.9MB 3570ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 17ms 1.1ms 7.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.2
perl 1.pl 371ms 1.9ms 6.6MB 360ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.9ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.2
perl 1.pl 3.0ms 0.1ms 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
go 1.go 346ms 0.8ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 350ms 2.0ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.2
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
go 1.go 37ms 0.7ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 38ms 0.9ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.2
perl 2.pl 2755ms 46ms 6.1MB 2747ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 1913ms 15ms 5.5MB 7410ms 3ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go 3658ms 17ms 5.6MB 3650ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 0.5MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.8MB 19800ms 10ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 489ms 15ms 5.5MB 1830ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go 941ms 32ms 3.5MB 933ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go 1397ms 1.8ms 0.5MB 1390ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19560ms 13ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 125ms 0.5ms 5.6MB 453ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go 239ms 3.5ms 3.5MB 230ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 1.go 351ms 1.0ms 0.4MB 343ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
perl 4-m.pl 3426ms 12ms 9.5MB 13310ms 7ms perl 5.40.2