Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Zig 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
zig 1.zig 1782ms 14ms 49.1MB 1747ms 17ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
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
zig 1.zig 176ms 52ms 7.1MB 163ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
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
zig 1.zig 87ms 0.8ms 1.3MB 73ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
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
zig 1.zig 11ms 0.8ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
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
zig 1.zig 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
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
zig 2.zig 276ms 0.5ms 1.1MB 267ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
zig 1.zig 314ms 0.6ms 1.3MB 310ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
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
zig 2.zig 29ms 0.0ms 1.1MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
zig 1.zig 33ms 0.3ms 1.3MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
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
zig 2-m.zig 475ms 1.1ms 3.8MB 1780ms 7ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
zig 2.zig 917ms 2.4ms 1.5MB 910ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
zig 1.zig 3668ms 10ms 1.4MB 3657ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
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
zig 2-m.zig 126ms 0.3ms 3.7MB 427ms 7ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
zig 2.zig 230ms 0.9ms 1.4MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
zig 1.zig 920ms 1.8ms 1.3MB 910ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
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
zig 2-m.zig 38ms 0.0ms 3.7MB 97ms 3ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
zig 2.zig 60ms 1.0ms 1.4MB 50ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
zig 1.zig 232ms 1.1ms 1.3MB 223ms 0ms zig 0.12.0-dev.2341+92211135f
perl 4-m.pl 3241ms 7.1ms 13.5MB 12600ms 10ms perl 5.38.2