Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Javascript 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
javascript 1-m.js 952ms 9.6ms 197.4MB 1437ms 220ms bun 1.2.7
javascript 1-m.js 1321ms 107ms 289.4MB 2197ms 167ms node 23.10.0
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
javascript 1.js 102ms 1.5ms 79.8MB 73ms 30ms bun 1.2.7
javascript 1.js 126ms 1.1ms 78.6MB 127ms 27ms node 23.10.0
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
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
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
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.4ms 33.1MB 0ms 10ms bun 1.2.7
javascript 1.js 31ms 0.6ms 48.0MB 18ms 4ms node 23.10.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 462ms 3.1ms 56.1MB 453ms 0ms node 23.10.0
javascript 6.js 782ms 14ms 46.1MB 777ms 3ms bun 1.2.7
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
javascript 6.js 78ms 0.6ms 56.1MB 67ms 7ms node 23.10.0
javascript 6.js 99ms 1.4ms 46.1MB 93ms 7ms bun 1.2.7
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
javascript 6-m.js 2201ms 33ms 115.5MB 8230ms 60ms node 23.10.0
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
javascript 6-m.js 653ms 1.5ms 112.8MB 2323ms 57ms node 23.10.0
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
javascript 6-m.js 269ms 3.8ms 110.6MB 830ms 53ms node 23.10.0
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 19ms 9.6MB 13200ms 10ms perl 5.40.1