Perl VS Rust 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
rust 4.rs 1350ms 24ms 33.8MB 1323ms 13ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 5.rs 1432ms 16ms 33.8MB 1407ms 7ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 3.rs 1491ms 51ms 49.9MB 1463ms 13ms rustc 1.75.0
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4957ms 27ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 5.rs 126ms 1.5ms 5.8MB 117ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 4.rs 129ms 0.4ms 5.8MB 117ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 3.rs 134ms 3.3ms 7.8MB 123ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
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
rust 5c-m.rs 90ms 0.4ms 4.8MB 237ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 5-m.rs 99ms 1.2ms 6.5MB 323ms 3ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 1c.rs 164ms 0.5ms 1.9MB 150ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 1.rs 223ms 0.3ms 1.9MB 210ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
perl 1.pl 3533ms 37ms 11.0MB 3517ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 5c-m.rs 16ms 0.3ms 6.5MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 5-m.rs 17ms 0.2ms 6.4MB 30ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 1c.rs 19ms 0.5ms 1.9MB 10ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 1.rs 25ms 0.7ms 1.9MB 17ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
perl 1.pl 366ms 12ms 6.6MB 353ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 1.2ms 0.1ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 1.rs 1.3ms 0.1ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.2ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 4-i.rs 168ms 9.4ms 1.9MB 157ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 7-i.rs 222ms 0.8ms 1.9MB 210ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 3.rs 285ms 0.7ms 1.9MB 277ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 2.rs 288ms 0.4ms 1.8MB 273ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 1.rs 338ms 1.1ms 1.9MB 330ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.3MB 4990ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 4-i.rs 19ms 1.1ms 1.9MB 10ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 7-i.rs 25ms 0.5ms 1.9MB 13ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 3.rs 31ms 0.2ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 2.rs 31ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 1.rs 37ms 1.1ms 1.8MB 30ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
perl 2.pl 2562ms 54ms 6.3MB 2553ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 8-m.rs 525ms 0.4ms 6.3MB 2023ms 3ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 997ms 0.9ms 6.2MB 3887ms 3ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 8.rs 1075ms 1.1ms 2.3MB 1063ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 1935ms 1.0ms 6.2MB 7583ms 13ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 7.rs 2068ms 5.9ms 2.0MB 2063ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 2.rs 4161ms 0.9ms 2.0MB 4150ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 13.8MB 19783ms 10ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 8-m.rs 135ms 0.6ms 6.2MB 497ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 255ms 0.2ms 6.1MB 947ms 7ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 8.rs 272ms 1.1ms 2.0MB 260ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 488ms 0.9ms 8.1MB 1880ms 3ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 7.rs 517ms 1.8ms 1.9MB 507ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 2.rs 1043ms 0.9ms 2.0MB 1030ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.0MB 19403ms 13ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 8-m.rs 38ms 0.4ms 6.1MB 113ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 69ms 0.5ms 6.1MB 227ms 10ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 8.rs 71ms 0.4ms 1.9MB 60ms 0ms rustc 1.77.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 127ms 1.1ms 6.1MB 457ms 3ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 7.rs 131ms 0.2ms 1.9MB 120ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
rust 2.rs 262ms 0.2ms 2.0MB 250ms 0ms rustc 1.75.0
perl 4-m.pl 3241ms 7.1ms 13.5MB 12600ms 10ms perl 5.38.2