Perl VS Java benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu May 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
java 2.java 458ms 2.1ms 574.1MB 557ms 83ms openjdk 21
java 2.java 472ms 4.2ms 620.6MB 573ms 107ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 478ms 13ms 644.0MB 667ms 127ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2.java 1199ms 18ms 1054.6MB 590ms 770ms openjdk/zgc 21
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
java 2-m.java 124ms 1.9ms 98.4MB 163ms 30ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 127ms 2.5ms 167.1MB 160ms 30ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 144ms 4.4ms 215.0MB 210ms 60ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2.java 305ms 0.9ms 241.8MB 150ms 207ms openjdk/zgc 21
perl 1.pl 1824ms 8.8ms 14.4MB 1810ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 4.java 447ms 14ms 101.1MB 630ms 40ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 4.java 452ms 0.4ms 47.6MB 537ms 13ms openjdk 21
java 4.java 456ms 3.6ms 49.3MB 543ms 17ms openjdk 23
java 4.java 563ms 4.9ms 45.3MB 527ms 140ms openjdk/zgc 21
perl 1.pl 3580ms 9.3ms 10.9MB 3570ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 4-m.java 122ms 1.7ms 89.0MB 170ms 33ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 4.java 123ms 0.6ms 46.6MB 160ms 20ms openjdk 21
java 4-m.java 126ms 2.9ms 48.3MB 173ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 4.java 245ms 1.7ms 43.9MB 167ms 137ms openjdk/zgc 21
perl 1.pl 371ms 1.9ms 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
perl 1.pl 3.0ms 0.1ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
java 1.java 62ms 1.3ms 52.7MB 66ms 18ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 71ms 1.1ms 43.7MB 74ms 12ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 72ms 2.0ms 44.7MB 76ms 14ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 189ms 5.2ms 42.9MB 80ms 136ms openjdk/zgc 21

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 1.java 440ms 3.0ms 45.1MB 477ms 20ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 444ms 1.1ms 48.2MB 480ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 447ms 4.2ms 81.5MB 483ms 27ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 570ms 5.4ms 44.7MB 497ms 133ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2.java 1230ms 3.1ms 579.3MB 1353ms 83ms openjdk 21
java 2.java 1248ms 1.3ms 759.3MB 1357ms 110ms openjdk 23
java 2.java 3219ms 18ms 2343.5MB 1627ms 1803ms openjdk/zgc 21
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
java 1.java 119ms 2.0ms 45.2MB 157ms 20ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 120ms 1.7ms 48.4MB 157ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 125ms 4.1ms 81.6MB 153ms 33ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 243ms 3.0ms 44.8MB 167ms 140ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2-m.java 286ms 3.4ms 356.7MB 417ms 53ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 310ms 7.8ms 413.9MB 440ms 70ms openjdk 23
java 2.java 684ms 9.8ms 530.4MB 453ms 420ms openjdk/zgc 21
perl 2.pl 2755ms 46ms 6.1MB 2747ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 2-m.java 1991ms 5.9ms 47.8MB 7610ms 23ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 1993ms 9.7ms 48.4MB 7613ms 30ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 2124ms 14ms 45.4MB 7600ms 157ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2-m.java 2505ms 22ms 93.6MB 9400ms 40ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 9.8MB 19800ms 10ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 2-m.java 600ms 7.0ms 47.8MB 2137ms 20ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 609ms 4.3ms 48.7MB 2157ms 23ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 729ms 2.4ms 45.4MB 2157ms 140ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2-m.java 768ms 0.7ms 93.5MB 2703ms 37ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19560ms 13ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 2-m.java 251ms 5.6ms 47.5MB 753ms 17ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 258ms 5.3ms 48.9MB 763ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 311ms 24ms 94.6MB 957ms 37ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2-m.java 372ms 10ms 45.2MB 733ms 140ms openjdk/zgc 21
perl 4-m.pl 3426ms 12ms 9.5MB 13310ms 7ms perl 5.40.2