Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Fri Aug 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 1726ms 16ms 51.9MB 1707ms 10ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1-m.go 2343ms 11ms 41.9MB 5213ms 33ms go 1.24.5
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4960ms 23ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 152ms 0.5ms 5.0MB 140ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1-m.go 207ms 1.7ms 8.3MB 367ms 7ms go 1.24.5
perl 1.pl 1828ms 6.1ms 14.4MB 1813ms 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 1.0ms 7.5MB 380ms 0ms go 1.24.5
perl 1.pl 3986ms 706ms 10.9MB 3973ms 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 1.0ms 7.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.5
perl 1.pl 369ms 7.7ms 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 0.8ms 0.1ms 0.3MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.5
perl 1.pl 2.4ms 0.1ms 5.1MB 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 349ms 3.6ms 0.3MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1.go 350ms 1.9ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.5
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 1.3ms 0.3MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
go 1.go 38ms 0.1ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.5
perl 2.pl 2772ms 20ms 6.1MB 2760ms 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 1906ms 16ms 5.4MB 7413ms 3ms go 1.24.5
go 1.go 3693ms 15ms 5.6MB 3690ms 0ms go 1.24.5
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 0.5MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.8MB 19817ms 7ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 480ms 1.0ms 5.5MB 1843ms 0ms go 1.24.5
go 1.go 924ms 10ms 3.5MB 917ms 0ms go 1.24.5
go 1.go 1397ms 0.7ms 0.4MB 1390ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19533ms 7ms 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 1.2ms 5.6MB 457ms 0ms go 1.24.5
go 1.go 233ms 5.1ms 3.5MB 223ms 0ms go 1.24.5
go 1.go 351ms 0.8ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.38.0
perl 4-m.pl 3437ms 29ms 9.6MB 13277ms 10ms perl 5.40.2