Programming Language and compiler
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Perl VS Haxe benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jun 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
haxe 1.hx 1321ms 15ms 143.9MB 1510ms 67ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 4384ms 33ms 495.3MB 4913ms 253ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 48.6MB 5477ms 433ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 83.0MB 4890ms 730ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 51.1MB 7413ms 413ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 130.9MB 7360ms 757ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4960ms 27ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 92ms 2.1ms 25.6MB 90ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 398ms 1.3ms 58.3MB 427ms 23ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 637ms 1.2ms 8.8MB 613ms 43ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 671ms 6.2ms 11.2MB 740ms 53ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 2.hx 918ms 2.5ms 13.7MB 813ms 147ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 922ms 6.6ms 25.0MB 903ms 157ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
perl 1.pl 1815ms 12ms 14.4MB 1800ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 2367ms 6.2ms 25.6MB 2263ms 190ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 3556ms 18ms 10.9MB 3543ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.2MB 4363ms 863ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.6MB 4433ms 817ms 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 250ms 3.7ms 25.6MB 223ms 27ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 367ms 3.7ms 6.6MB 357ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
haxe 1.hx 653ms 8.5ms 3.3MB 567ms 107ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 683ms 11ms 3.9MB 600ms 103ms 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 0.2ms 2.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2.3ms 0.2ms 4.5MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.3ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
haxe 1.hx 3.5ms 0.4ms 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 856ms 5.0ms 3.0MB 843ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1068ms 2.6ms 3.0MB 1057ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 1384ms 8.3ms 25.6MB 1513ms 33ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 2410ms 13ms 3.6MB 2400ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 2467ms 0.4ms 3.6MB 2460ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.5MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.5MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 3.3MB 3920ms 1600ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.0MB 4170ms 1310ms 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 0.6ms 3.0MB 80ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 111ms 0.5ms 3.0MB 100ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 154ms 1.9ms 25.6MB 147ms 13ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 245ms 0.1ms 3.6MB 233ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 255ms 2.4ms 3.6MB 247ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 3.hx 669ms 2.7ms 3.1MB 513ms 213ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 674ms 6.4ms 4.4MB 667ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 781ms 7.2ms 3.8MB 637ms 207ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
haxe 1.hx 811ms 1.5ms 4.4MB 800ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
perl 2.pl 2719ms 106ms 6.1MB 2707ms 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 3896ms 11ms 3.3MB 3883ms 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 19830ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 985ms 3.4ms 3.2MB 973ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2398ms 1.9ms 6.5MB 2387ms 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 10.0MB 19553ms 10ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 250ms 2.4ms 3.0MB 240ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 603ms 1.6ms 5.4MB 590ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2301ms 12ms 3.8MB 2290ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.15.0
perl 4-m.pl 3429ms 2.4ms 9.5MB 13317ms 7ms perl 5.40.2