Perl VS Java 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
java 2.java 464ms 6.6ms 574.2MB 563ms 87ms openjdk 21
java 2.java 479ms 9.1ms 616.4MB 583ms 103ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 481ms 19ms 639.3MB 660ms 120ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2.java 1236ms 32ms 1075.1MB 593ms 800ms openjdk/zgc 21
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
java 2.java 126ms 3.2ms 166.9MB 150ms 33ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 129ms 10ms 97.1MB 167ms 33ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 149ms 2.9ms 225.2MB 223ms 50ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2.java 312ms 9.7ms 241.7MB 150ms 213ms openjdk/zgc 21
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
java 4-m.java 450ms 7.2ms 101.3MB 637ms 43ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 4.java 459ms 3.8ms 49.0MB 550ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 4.java 461ms 6.4ms 47.5MB 547ms 27ms openjdk 21
java 4.java 576ms 6.5ms 45.3MB 553ms 137ms openjdk/zgc 21
perl 1.pl 3618ms 29ms 10.9MB 3607ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 4-m.java 122ms 3.2ms 46.3MB 163ms 20ms openjdk 21
java 4-m.java 131ms 2.3ms 47.9MB 177ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 4-m.java 143ms 7.4ms 92.6MB 210ms 33ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 4.java 241ms 8.7ms 44.1MB 157ms 140ms openjdk/zgc 21
perl 1.pl 369ms 1.3ms 6.6MB 360ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
java 1.java 66ms 0.5ms 52.8MB 68ms 22ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 69ms 3.8ms 43.8MB 76ms 16ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 73ms 1.9ms 44.5MB 74ms 14ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 194ms 3.2ms 42.8MB 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 445ms 3.1ms 81.4MB 473ms 27ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 448ms 1.2ms 45.5MB 493ms 17ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 450ms 1.9ms 48.1MB 483ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 570ms 3.2ms 44.7MB 490ms 140ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2.java 1242ms 14ms 599.7MB 1377ms 87ms openjdk 21
java 2.java 1263ms 11ms 775.7MB 1373ms 113ms openjdk 23
java 2.java 3341ms 60ms 2440.1MB 1657ms 1900ms openjdk/zgc 21
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
java 1.java 119ms 5.4ms 45.2MB 157ms 17ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 123ms 5.6ms 81.6MB 157ms 27ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 124ms 1.4ms 47.8MB 160ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 248ms 2.5ms 44.8MB 170ms 137ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2-m.java 297ms 9.8ms 354.8MB 443ms 57ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 322ms 3.6ms 396.6MB 450ms 73ms openjdk 23
java 2.java 694ms 10ms 528.8MB 457ms 420ms openjdk/zgc 21
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
java 2-m.java 1989ms 19ms 47.7MB 7560ms 20ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 1997ms 1.6ms 49.0MB 7633ms 27ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 2134ms 23ms 45.4MB 7440ms 147ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2-m.java 2523ms 33ms 95.5MB 9413ms 50ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
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
java 2-m.java 605ms 9.9ms 47.7MB 2137ms 27ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 616ms 4.1ms 48.4MB 2170ms 23ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 730ms 1.3ms 45.4MB 2137ms 150ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2-m.java 781ms 8.9ms 93.2MB 2740ms 37ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
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
java 2-m.java 255ms 6.3ms 49.0MB 753ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 255ms 9.2ms 47.6MB 763ms 23ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 319ms 30ms 94.2MB 960ms 40ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2-m.java 382ms 13ms 45.2MB 747ms 153ms openjdk/zgc 21
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 19ms 9.6MB 13200ms 10ms perl 5.40.1