Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jul 13 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
wasm 5.rs 1739ms 5.1ms 34.0MB 1720ms 7ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 4.rs 1815ms 23ms 34.1MB 1793ms 10ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 3.rs 1852ms 9.2ms 50.0MB 1823ms 17ms wasmtime 34.0.1
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4963ms 23ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 171ms 1.3ms 20.0MB 157ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 4.rs 174ms 3.1ms 20.0MB 163ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 3.rs 180ms 3.2ms 22.0MB 163ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
perl 1.pl 1814ms 11ms 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
wasm 1.rs 234ms 2.4ms 18.2MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
perl 1.pl 3699ms 175ms 10.9MB 3687ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 31ms 0.4ms 18.3MB 20ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
perl 1.pl 365ms 1.2ms 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
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.4ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.2
wasm 1.rs 6.7ms 0.5ms 18.2MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 405ms 1.9ms 18.0MB 390ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 2.rs 564ms 4.6ms 18.1MB 553ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
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
wasm 1.rs 47ms 0.1ms 18.1MB 37ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 2.rs 65ms 1.7ms 18.1MB 50ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
perl 2.pl 2731ms 3.5ms 6.1MB 2723ms 0ms perl 5.40.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 3597ms 3.4ms 17.7MB 3583ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 7.rs 4892ms 1.4ms 19.8MB 4880ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19643ms 7ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 906ms 1.0ms 18.3MB 893ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 7.rs 1231ms 2.6ms 17.7MB 1217ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.0MB 19530ms 3ms perl 5.40.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 234ms 0.9ms 17.8MB 220ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
wasm 7.rs 314ms 0.5ms 18.1MB 300ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.1
perl 4-m.pl 3449ms 32ms 9.4MB 13333ms 3ms perl 5.40.2