Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sat Mar 29 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 1256ms 11ms 55.0MB 1230ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2402ms 27ms 39.8MB 5327ms 37ms go 1.24.1
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4963ms 27ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 114ms 0.9ms 5.6MB 103ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 211ms 0.7ms 8.0MB 377ms 10ms go 1.24.1
perl 1.pl 1805ms 9.4ms 14.4MB 1790ms 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 126ms 0.7ms 5.5MB 380ms 0ms go 1.24.1
perl 1.pl 3618ms 29ms 10.9MB 3607ms 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 1.2ms 7.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.1
perl 1.pl 369ms 1.3ms 6.6MB 360ms 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 0.9ms 0.0ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.1
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 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
go 1.go 348ms 0.1ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 350ms 4.0ms 0.4MB 343ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
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
go 1.go 37ms 0.7ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 39ms 1.2ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.1
perl 2.pl 2754ms 16ms 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 1901ms 1.6ms 5.5MB 7417ms 3ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 3665ms 8.1ms 5.6MB 3660ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 0.5MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.8MB 19777ms 7ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 482ms 2.2ms 5.6MB 1837ms 3ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 918ms 5.1ms 3.5MB 907ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 1397ms 0.3ms 0.5MB 1390ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.3MB 19540ms 17ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 125ms 0.6ms 5.5MB 453ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 234ms 0.8ms 3.5MB 227ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 351ms 0.2ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 19ms 9.6MB 13200ms 10ms perl 5.40.1