Perl VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Dec 31 2024, 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
javascript 1-m.js 867ms 11ms 178.1MB 1290ms 257ms bun 1.1.42
javascript 1-m.js 1182ms 24ms 293.5MB 2050ms 133ms node 23.5.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.6MB 4967ms 17ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 91ms 0.7ms 78.5MB 70ms 23ms bun 1.1.42
javascript 1.js 117ms 2.5ms 82.6MB 117ms 23ms node 23.5.0
perl 1.pl 1698ms 16ms 14.4MB 1683ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 3446ms 24ms 10.9MB 3430ms 3ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 357ms 7.1ms 6.6MB 343ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.4ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.0
javascript 1.js 12ms 0.4ms 32.1MB 10ms 0ms bun 1.1.42
javascript 1.js 29ms 1.3ms 51.9MB 14ms 4ms node 23.5.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 442ms 11ms 59.8MB 427ms 7ms node 23.5.0
javascript 6.js 628ms 10ms 44.6MB 627ms 3ms bun 1.1.42
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4987ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 72ms 1.0ms 59.9MB 57ms 3ms node 23.5.0
javascript 6.js 82ms 1.6ms 44.8MB 83ms 3ms bun 1.1.42
perl 2.pl 2623ms 40ms 6.3MB 2613ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 2043ms 5.4ms 114.5MB 7827ms 53ms node 23.5.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 13.8MB 19753ms 10ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 615ms 5.5ms 118.0MB 2180ms 43ms node 23.5.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.3MB 19510ms 17ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 250ms 4.8ms 114.8MB 770ms 47ms node 23.5.0
perl 4-m.pl 3251ms 16ms 12.6MB 12587ms 10ms perl 5.40.0