Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Rust 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
rust 4.rs 1269ms 5.9ms 33.6MB 1247ms 7ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 5.rs 1360ms 8.5ms 33.8MB 1333ms 10ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 3.rs 1472ms 50ms 49.8MB 1440ms 17ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 4.rs 120ms 2.2ms 5.6MB 110ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 5.rs 126ms 3.7ms 5.8MB 113ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 3.rs 142ms 3.8ms 7.8MB 130ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 5c-m.rs 92ms 2.8ms 3.2MB 263ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 5-m.rs 93ms 0.6ms 3.2MB 293ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 1c.rs 163ms 0.3ms 1.8MB 150ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 1.rs 196ms 0.7ms 1.9MB 190ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 5c-m.rs 17ms 0.2ms 3.2MB 23ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 5-m.rs 17ms 0.5ms 3.4MB 30ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 1c.rs 19ms 0.1ms 1.9MB 10ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 1.rs 22ms 0.6ms 1.9MB 10ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 1.rs 1.2ms 0.0ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 1.rs 1.3ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.2ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 4-i.rs 164ms 0.4ms 1.9MB 157ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 7-i.rs 239ms 0.8ms 1.8MB 230ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 1.rs 240ms 0.7ms 1.8MB 230ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 3.rs 279ms 0.7ms 1.9MB 270ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
rust 2.rs 280ms 0.4ms 1.8MB 270ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 4-i.rs 18ms 0.3ms 1.9MB 10ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 7-i.rs 26ms 0.2ms 1.9MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 1.rs 26ms 0.3ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 3.rs 30ms 0.2ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
rust 2.rs 31ms 0.8ms 1.6MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 8-m.rs 498ms 6.0ms 2.5MB 1880ms 7ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 504ms 3.9ms 2.3MB 1930ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 8.rs 993ms 0.8ms 2.4MB 983ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 1969ms 2.9ms 2.1MB 7700ms 13ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 7.rs 2108ms 1.5ms 2.0MB 2100ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 4215ms 2.7ms 2.0MB 4207ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 8-m.rs 128ms 0.6ms 2.4MB 463ms 3ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 130ms 0.5ms 2.1MB 477ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 8.rs 251ms 0.4ms 2.1MB 240ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 496ms 0.9ms 2.1MB 1913ms 3ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 7.rs 531ms 2.6ms 1.9MB 523ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 1056ms 1.3ms 1.9MB 1050ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 7-m.rs 36ms 0.5ms 2.1MB 107ms 3ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 8-m.rs 36ms 0.4ms 2.1MB 107ms 3ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
rust 8.rs 66ms 0.5ms 2.0MB 60ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 129ms 0.7ms 2.1MB 467ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 7.rs 139ms 5.6ms 1.9MB 133ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 266ms 0.4ms 2.0MB 260ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
perl 4-m.pl 3406ms 19ms 9.6MB 13200ms 10ms perl 5.40.1