Swift VS C benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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
swift 1.swift 2911ms 5.8ms 53.9MB 2883ms 17ms swift 6.0.3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 1.swift 239ms 4.8ms 12.0MB 220ms 0ms swift 6.0.3

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 1.swift 2463ms 9.5ms 5.6MB 2450ms 0ms swift 6.0.3

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 1.swift 212ms 2.8ms 5.6MB 200ms 0ms swift 6.0.3

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 3-m.swift 140ms 3.0ms 24.8MB 380ms 3ms swift 6.0.3

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 3.swift 37ms 0.2ms 18.1MB 33ms 0ms swift 6.0.3

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 1.0ms 0.1ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 1.c 1.3ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1.c 1.4ms 0.1ms 2.0MB 0ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
swift 1.swift 2.3ms 0.2ms 6.0MB 0ms 0ms swift 6.0.3

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1-m.c 184ms 11ms 26.4MB 420ms 10ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1-m.c 291ms 2.0ms 29.6MB 997ms 27ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
swift 2-m.swift 1401ms 19ms 72.6MB 5030ms 33ms swift 6.0.3

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1-m.c 28ms 1.7ms 12.7MB 63ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1-m.c 39ms 3.6ms 14.9MB 103ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
swift 2-m.swift 262ms 2.8ms 63.8MB 687ms 20ms swift 6.0.3

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 246ms 1.0ms 1.5MB 233ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 5.c 298ms 0.7ms 1.5MB 290ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 8-i.c 301ms 1.9ms 2.1MB 290ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 311ms 1.5ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 311ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 315ms 0.3ms 2.1MB 300ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 315ms 1.0ms 1.5MB 303ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 2.c 317ms 2.6ms 2.1MB 307ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 8-i.c 332ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 320ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
swift 7.swift 344ms 2.5ms 9.8MB 330ms 0ms swift 6.0.3

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 26ms 0.1ms 1.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 5.c 32ms 0.2ms 1.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 8-i.c 32ms 0.6ms 2.1MB 23ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 33ms 0.3ms 1.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 2.c 33ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 23ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 33ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 27ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5.c 34ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 8-i.c 35ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 2.c 36ms 3.1ms 2.1MB 27ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
swift 7.swift 39ms 1.1ms 9.8MB 30ms 0ms swift 6.0.3

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 1.swift timeout 0.0ms 7.1MB 4907ms 77ms swift 6.0.3

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 1.swift 1861ms 13ms 6.9MB 1840ms 3ms swift 6.0.3