Perl VS Ruby benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu Feb 01 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
ruby 1.rb 4037ms 417ms 123.9MB 3920ms 100ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4957ms 27ms perl 5.38.2
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 85.3MB 4930ms 53ms ruby 3.3.0
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 679.9MB 9080ms 607ms truffleruby 23.1.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 1.rb 408ms 6.3ms 36.4MB 367ms 27ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0
ruby 1.rb 856ms 5.9ms 36.4MB 813ms 20ms ruby 3.3.0
ruby 1-m.rb 910ms 25ms 437.3MB 2027ms 183ms truffleruby 23.1.2
perl 1.pl 1805ms 29ms 14.1MB 1787ms 3ms perl 5.38.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 6.rb 1457ms 11ms 39.1MB 1407ms 33ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0
ruby 6-m.rb 2178ms 87ms 420.2MB 5517ms 327ms truffleruby 23.1.2
perl 1.pl 3533ms 37ms 11.0MB 3517ms 0ms perl 5.38.2
ruby 6.rb 3794ms 10ms 37.6MB 3760ms 20ms ruby 3.3.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 6.rb 223ms 11ms 30.4MB 190ms 17ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0
perl 1.pl 366ms 12ms 6.6MB 353ms 0ms perl 5.38.2
ruby 6.rb 445ms 0.8ms 30.0MB 407ms 23ms ruby 3.3.0
ruby 6-m.rb 835ms 23ms 372.2MB 2033ms 187ms truffleruby 23.1.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.2ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.38.2
ruby 1.rb 41ms 0.2ms 161.9MB 8ms 32ms truffleruby 23.1.2
ruby 1.rb 70ms 2.0ms 28.3MB 46ms 12ms ruby 3.3.0
ruby 1.rb 72ms 1.8ms 28.4MB 46ms 16ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 2.rb 953ms 118ms 319.9MB 1190ms 110ms truffleruby 23.1.2
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.3MB 4990ms 0ms perl 5.38.2
ruby 2.rb timeout 0.0ms 28.1MB 4967ms 17ms ruby 3.3.0
ruby 2.rb timeout 0.0ms 28.5MB 4963ms 20ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 2-m.rb 319ms 5.4ms 312.4MB 540ms 113ms truffleruby 23.1.2
ruby 2.rb 1455ms 8.4ms 28.4MB 1423ms 17ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0
perl 2.pl 2562ms 54ms 6.3MB 2553ms 0ms perl 5.38.2
ruby 2.rb 2876ms 37ms 28.1MB 2840ms 20ms ruby 3.3.0

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 19783ms 10ms perl 5.38.2
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 28.1MB 4973ms 10ms ruby 3.3.0
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 28.5MB 4963ms 17ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 527.7MB 5150ms 253ms truffleruby 23.1.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 4.rb 4605ms 65ms 509.3MB 4857ms 220ms truffleruby 23.1.2
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.0MB 19403ms 13ms perl 5.38.2
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 28.1MB 4967ms 20ms ruby 3.3.0
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 28.5MB 4963ms 20ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 4.rb 1257ms 60ms 358.6MB 1563ms 133ms truffleruby 23.1.2
perl 4-m.pl 3241ms 7.1ms 13.5MB 12600ms 10ms perl 5.38.2
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 28.3MB 4973ms 10ms ruby 3.3.0
ruby 4.rb timeout 0.0ms 28.4MB 4970ms 13ms ruby/yjit 3.3.0