Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS OCaml 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
ocaml 1.ml 2989ms 28ms 157.2MB 2907ms 67ms ocaml 5.3.0
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
ocaml 1.ml 218ms 4.7ms 19.2MB 203ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
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
ocaml 6.ml 345ms 0.9ms 24.9MB 333ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
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
ocaml 6.ml 38ms 0.1ms 7.3MB 30ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
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
ocaml 1.ml 1.7ms 0.1ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.3ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 371ms 0.1ms 5.3MB 360ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
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
ocaml 1.ml 41ms 1.7ms 5.2MB 33ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
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
ocaml 2.ml 4557ms 9.2ms 6.3MB 4543ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
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
ocaml 2.ml 1144ms 6.9ms 6.1MB 1133ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
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
ocaml 2.ml 295ms 8.4ms 5.2MB 283ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
perl 4-m.pl 3429ms 2.4ms 9.5MB 13317ms 7ms perl 5.40.2