Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Ruby benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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
ruby 1.rb 4697ms 14ms 109.5MB 4587ms 90ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4960ms 27ms perl 5.40.1
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 70.1MB 4937ms 50ms ruby 3.4.1
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 782.5MB 6640ms 683ms truffleruby 24.1.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 1.rb 478ms 0.8ms 20.4MB 460ms 7ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1
ruby 1-m.rb 593ms 65ms 442.1MB 1223ms 143ms truffleruby 24.1.2
ruby 1.rb 945ms 11ms 19.6MB 920ms 13ms ruby 3.4.1
perl 1.pl 1798ms 12ms 14.4MB 1787ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 6.rb 2040ms 8.8ms 23.1MB 2023ms 0ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1
ruby 6-m.rb 2230ms 140ms 416.5MB 5760ms 373ms truffleruby 24.1.2
perl 1.pl 3604ms 17ms 10.9MB 3590ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
ruby 6.rb 3691ms 41ms 22.5MB 3663ms 13ms ruby 3.4.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 6.rb 281ms 27ms 15.2MB 257ms 10ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1
perl 1.pl 383ms 27ms 6.5MB 367ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
ruby 6.rb 424ms 3.1ms 14.5MB 403ms 3ms ruby 3.4.1
ruby 6-m.rb 803ms 10ms 383.2MB 1957ms 183ms truffleruby 24.1.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.8ms 0.4ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
ruby 1.rb 39ms 0.6ms 162.9MB 12ms 28ms truffleruby 24.1.2
ruby 1.rb 52ms 1.6ms 13.3MB 34ms 6ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1
ruby 1.rb 54ms 1.5ms 12.9MB 40ms 2ms ruby 3.4.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 2.rb 837ms 3.1ms 329.6MB 1080ms 117ms truffleruby 24.1.2
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4987ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
ruby 2.rb timeout 0.0ms 12.9MB 4983ms 3ms ruby 3.4.1
ruby 2.rb timeout 0.0ms 13.6MB 4980ms 3ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 2-m.rb 321ms 1.6ms 325.2MB 553ms 120ms truffleruby 24.1.2
ruby 2.rb 1057ms 1.2ms 13.6MB 1037ms 7ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1
perl 2.pl 2757ms 41ms 6.1MB 2743ms 0ms perl 5.40.1
ruby 2.rb 2773ms 54ms 12.9MB 2760ms 0ms ruby 3.4.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 13.8MB 19717ms 23ms perl 5.40.1
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 13.0MB 4980ms 7ms ruby 3.4.1
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 13.6MB 4980ms 3ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 448.7MB 5180ms 220ms truffleruby 24.1.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 4.rb 4530ms 33ms 454.5MB 4833ms 187ms truffleruby 24.1.2
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.0MB 19480ms 10ms perl 5.40.1
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 12.9MB 4980ms 7ms ruby 3.4.1
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 13.6MB 4980ms 10ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 4.rb 1303ms 67ms 435.1MB 1637ms 147ms truffleruby 24.1.2
perl 4-m.pl 3392ms 3.3ms 12.4MB 13083ms 10ms perl 5.40.1
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 13.0MB 4977ms 7ms ruby 3.4.1
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 13.8MB 4977ms 10ms ruby/yjit 3.4.1