Swift VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon May 19 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
go 1.go 1249ms 9.0ms 55.0MB 1227ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2386ms 8.7ms 41.6MB 5307ms 40ms go 1.24.3
swift 1.swift 2689ms 59ms 53.8MB 2653ms 20ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 113ms 1.7ms 5.6MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 210ms 2.2ms 8.1MB 370ms 10ms go 1.24.3
swift 1.swift 241ms 1.8ms 11.8MB 230ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 672ms 1.3ms 5.5MB 2597ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 3.go 2021ms 2.1ms 48.8MB 2003ms 3ms tinygo 0.37.0
swift 1.swift 2480ms 11ms 6.1MB 2470ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 73ms 0.4ms 5.5MB 193ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 3.go 194ms 1.1ms 49.1MB 177ms 3ms tinygo 0.37.0
swift 1.swift 211ms 2.3ms 6.5MB 200ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 126ms 0.6ms 7.5MB 377ms 0ms go 1.24.3
swift 3-m.swift 146ms 1.7ms 20.9MB 430ms 10ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 3-m.go 17ms 0.0ms 7.6MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.3
swift 3.swift 39ms 0.5ms 14.2MB 40ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.8ms 0.0ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.4ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.3
swift 1.swift 2.4ms 0.2ms 5.8MB 0ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 7-m.go 691ms 14ms 39.6MB 2427ms 27ms go 1.24.3
swift 2-m.swift 1521ms 212ms 70.6MB 4853ms 30ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 7-m.go 133ms 2.9ms 22.8MB 353ms 23ms go 1.24.3
swift 2-m.swift 276ms 32ms 60.0MB 687ms 30ms swift 6.1.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
swift 7.swift 343ms 0.5ms 9.9MB 330ms 0ms swift 6.1.0
go 1.go 349ms 0.2ms 3.5MB 340ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 1.go 353ms 6.1ms 0.4MB 343ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 37ms 0.6ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 38ms 1.3ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.3
swift 7.swift 38ms 0.5ms 10.0MB 30ms 0ms swift 6.1.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 1191ms 8.1ms 8.6MB 1180ms 3ms go 1.24.3
swift 1.swift timeout 0.0ms 7.1MB 4937ms 50ms swift 6.1.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 283ms 4.5ms 8.6MB 273ms 0ms go 1.24.3
swift 1.swift 1924ms 10ms 7.0MB 1910ms 3ms swift 6.1.0