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Perl VS Haxe 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
haxe 1.hx 1301ms 12ms 144.0MB 1493ms 73ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 4443ms 22ms 495.1MB 5023ms 253ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 48.7MB 5697ms 393ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 83.0MB 5100ms 663ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 50.4MB 7860ms 443ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 131.0MB 7477ms 797ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
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
haxe 1.hx 92ms 6.0ms 25.6MB 83ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 401ms 15ms 58.3MB 433ms 27ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 649ms 11ms 8.7MB 620ms 43ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 678ms 13ms 11.2MB 723ms 63ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx 939ms 16ms 13.7MB 830ms 153ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 1009ms 1.4ms 25.0MB 983ms 177ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
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
haxe 1.hx 2421ms 3.1ms 25.5MB 2330ms 223ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 3618ms 29ms 10.9MB 3607ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.2MB 4323ms 887ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.6MB 4357ms 880ms 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 259ms 2.1ms 25.6MB 227ms 33ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 369ms 1.3ms 6.6MB 360ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
haxe 1.hx 674ms 3.8ms 3.3MB 563ms 127ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 691ms 12ms 3.6MB 607ms 107ms 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 2.0ms 0.1ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2.3ms 0.2ms 4.4MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
haxe 1.hx 3.4ms 0.3ms 2.8MB 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 857ms 10ms 3.0MB 850ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1076ms 3.9ms 3.0MB 1063ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 1404ms 10ms 25.6MB 1593ms 40ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 2410ms 1.3ms 3.8MB 2400ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 2474ms 9.7ms 3.6MB 2463ms 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 3883ms 1613ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.8MB 4170ms 1280ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
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
haxe 2.hx 90ms 1.4ms 3.0MB 80ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 113ms 2.6ms 3.0MB 107ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 155ms 0.5ms 25.6MB 157ms 7ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 248ms 0.9ms 3.6MB 240ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 253ms 2.1ms 3.6MB 240ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 3.hx 676ms 3.1ms 3.3MB 490ms 243ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 679ms 4.7ms 4.4MB 670ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 799ms 15ms 3.8MB 657ms 203ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 812ms 4.7ms 4.6MB 800ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
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
haxe 1.hx 3930ms 12ms 3.3MB 3917ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 6.9MB 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 9.8MB 19777ms 7ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 991ms 5.0ms 3.2MB 980ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2401ms 2.0ms 6.6MB 2390ms 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 10.3MB 19540ms 17ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 254ms 1.0ms 3.1MB 243ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 603ms 0.7ms 5.4MB 590ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2320ms 3.3ms 3.6MB 2310ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 19ms 9.6MB 13200ms 10ms perl 5.40.1