Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Javascript 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
javascript 1-m.js 907ms 13ms 181.8MB 1350ms 187ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 1049ms 5.1ms 469.9MB 970ms 217ms node 24.1.0
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
javascript 1.js 100ms 1.6ms 77.6MB 80ms 27ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 123ms 1.2ms 80.3MB 127ms 20ms node 24.1.0
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
perl 1.pl 3556ms 18ms 10.9MB 3543ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 367ms 3.7ms 6.6MB 357ms 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 2.6ms 0.3ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
javascript 1.js 12ms 0.4ms 31.5MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 30ms 0.6ms 49.8MB 18ms 6ms node 24.1.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 456ms 3.2ms 57.9MB 447ms 7ms node 24.1.0
javascript 6.js 597ms 2.9ms 45.0MB 600ms 0ms bun 1.2.15
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
javascript 6.js 78ms 2.2ms 58.2MB 67ms 7ms node 24.1.0
javascript 6.js 80ms 0.6ms 45.0MB 90ms 3ms bun 1.2.15
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
javascript 6-m.js 2185ms 14ms 119.3MB 8240ms 53ms node 24.1.0
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
javascript 6-m.js 653ms 1.5ms 117.6MB 2320ms 57ms node 24.1.0
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
javascript 6-m.js 270ms 2.9ms 117.4MB 843ms 47ms node 24.1.0
perl 4-m.pl 3429ms 2.4ms 9.5MB 13317ms 7ms perl 5.40.2