Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Php VS Zig benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Jun 23 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
zig 1.zig 1880ms 29ms 49.0MB 1853ms 13ms zig 0.14.1
php 1.php timeout 0.0ms 141.9MB 4963ms 27ms php 8.2.28

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 152ms 0.9ms 7.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
php 1.php 621ms 4.0ms 62.7MB 587ms 20ms php 8.2.28

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 0.9ms 0.0ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
php 1.php 47ms 0.9ms 52.3MB 16ms 20ms php 8.2.28

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 913ms 47ms 41.0MB 887ms 10ms zig 0.14.1
php 1.php 3756ms 39ms 113.6MB 3717ms 23ms php 8.2.28

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 178ms 4.2ms 11.0MB 163ms 0ms zig 0.14.1
php 1.php 823ms 5.4ms 66.8MB 787ms 20ms php 8.2.28