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Perl VS Haxe benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Jun 23 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
haxe 1.hx 1317ms 11ms 144.0MB 1497ms 70ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 4420ms 7.8ms 495.1MB 5000ms 247ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 48.6MB 5657ms 417ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 83.0MB 5150ms 673ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 50.9MB 7683ms 437ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 131.0MB 7317ms 777ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
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
haxe 1.hx 90ms 3.6ms 25.8MB 83ms 3ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 398ms 2.4ms 58.3MB 440ms 23ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 646ms 9.3ms 8.7MB 603ms 60ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 692ms 36ms 11.2MB 753ms 53ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx 946ms 20ms 25.2MB 910ms 177ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx 1045ms 6.8ms 13.7MB 940ms 160ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 1824ms 20ms 14.4MB 1807ms 3ms perl 5.40.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 2388ms 16ms 25.6MB 2313ms 200ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 3560ms 16ms 10.9MB 3543ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.2MB 4373ms 853ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.6MB 4387ms 853ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 254ms 3.7ms 25.6MB 223ms 27ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 367ms 3.4ms 6.6MB 353ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
haxe 1.hx 651ms 2.0ms 3.4MB 553ms 120ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 682ms 5.2ms 3.6MB 593ms 110ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 2.1ms 0.3ms 4.4MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2.2ms 0.4ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
haxe 1.hx 3.4ms 0.3ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 2.hx 856ms 3.7ms 3.0MB 847ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1062ms 2.4ms 3.0MB 1053ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 1395ms 8.8ms 25.6MB 1580ms 30ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 2408ms 11ms 3.6MB 2397ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 2475ms 15ms 3.6MB 2467ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.4MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.4MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.4MB 3933ms 1573ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.9MB 4137ms 1327ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
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
haxe 2.hx 88ms 0.0ms 3.0MB 80ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 111ms 2.1ms 3.0MB 103ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 156ms 2.4ms 25.6MB 157ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 245ms 0.4ms 3.6MB 237ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 259ms 3.6ms 3.6MB 247ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx 674ms 3.1ms 4.4MB 667ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 679ms 4.5ms 3.3MB 513ms 223ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 800ms 16ms 3.8MB 657ms 203ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 811ms 7.7ms 4.6MB 803ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 2.pl 2829ms 163ms 6.1MB 2820ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 3907ms 10ms 3.3MB 3893ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 7.0MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.9MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.9MB 19817ms 10ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 984ms 3.3ms 3.1MB 970ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2400ms 1.8ms 6.6MB 2390ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.8MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.1MB 19537ms 10ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 251ms 2.2ms 3.1MB 240ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 610ms 11ms 5.4MB 597ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2306ms 10ms 3.8MB 2297ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
perl 4-m.pl 3441ms 7.2ms 9.5MB 13347ms 3ms perl 5.40.2