Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

V VS Zig benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Apr 14 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
v 1.v 776ms 13ms 28.8MB 763ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
zig 1.zig 1894ms 41ms 49.0MB 1867ms 17ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 2181ms 25ms 2086.6MB 1293ms 870ms v/clang 0.4.10

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 72ms 2.7ms 4.6MB 60ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
zig 1.zig 152ms 2.5ms 7.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 210ms 4.3ms 198.0MB 120ms 80ms v/clang 0.4.10

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 18.1MB 8697ms 10607ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 18.0MB 8987ms 10223ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1-m.v 1392ms 49ms 9.6MB 2267ms 2953ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1-m.v 1502ms 58ms 10.3MB 2597ms 3033ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 2266ms 7.9ms 2.5MB 2240ms 17ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 8.3MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 382ms 1.2ms 1.9MB 367ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 4.6MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 631ms 8.0ms 1.4MB 2400ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 1768ms 2.0ms 1.0MB 1760ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 2235ms 1.8ms 1.9MB 2223ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
v 1.v 2259ms 4.6ms 1.1MB 2253ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
zig 1.zig 2714ms 7.8ms 1.1MB 2707ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 60ms 1.2ms 1.4MB 200ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 148ms 1.0ms 1.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 190ms 2.6ms 1.9MB 180ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
v 1.v 193ms 1.3ms 1.1MB 180ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
zig 1.zig 229ms 0.7ms 1.0MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 87ms 0.7ms 1.0MB 80ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 499ms 3.2ms 1.3MB 490ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v 517ms 2.6ms 2.1MB 507ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 11ms 0.8ms 1.0MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 54ms 0.6ms 2.1MB 50ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
v 1.v 54ms 1.5ms 1.3MB 47ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
zig 1.zig 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.0MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 1.3ms 0.0ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 34ms 1.8ms 2.8MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 254ms 2.2ms 1.3MB 243ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v 264ms 9.7ms 2.1MB 257ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 93ms 2.6ms 2.8MB 87ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 753ms 8.3ms 1.5MB 743ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v 770ms 12ms 2.1MB 760ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 15ms 0.2ms 1.3MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 90ms 2.2ms 1.3MB 83ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v 100ms 1.2ms 2.1MB 90ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 198ms 0.4ms 1.0MB 190ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 280ms 0.3ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 311ms 1.3ms 1.6MB 300ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v 313ms 1.2ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
zig 1.zig 315ms 0.5ms 1.1MB 307ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 3.zig 22ms 0.2ms 1.0MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 33ms 0.5ms 1.6MB 30ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.4ms 1.1MB 30ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 34ms 0.4ms 2.3MB 30ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 263ms 1.3ms 40.1MB 250ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 301ms 2.5ms 40.2MB 287ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v 307ms 2.3ms 41.1MB 297ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
zig 2.zig 328ms 2.0ms 6.0MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 2.v 331ms 2.0ms 6.9MB 320ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
v 2.v 332ms 2.6ms 6.1MB 320ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 50ms 1.1ms 10.8MB 40ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 59ms 3.2ms 11.7MB 50ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
v 1.v 59ms 1.2ms 11.0MB 50ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
zig 2.zig 80ms 0.0ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 2.v 82ms 1.6ms 3.1MB 73ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10
v 2.v 83ms 1.8ms 2.4MB 73ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 2458ms 14ms 2.2MB 2430ms 13ms zig 0.14.0
v 2.v 3232ms 64ms 3.4MB 3210ms 10ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 568ms 5.0ms 1.8MB 557ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 2.v 795ms 37ms 2.6MB 780ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 83.0MB 4983ms 3ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
v 1.v 3588ms 122ms 26.0MB 3577ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 3690ms 5.3ms 1.4MB 3680ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 1.6MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v timeout 0.0ms 2.8MB 4990ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 923ms 2.2ms 1.3MB 913ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 1284ms 0.9ms 1.5MB 1277ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v 1299ms 2.5ms 2.5MB 1290ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 234ms 1.1ms 1.3MB 230ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
v 1.v 325ms 1.3ms 1.5MB 320ms 0ms v/clang 0.4.10
v 1.v 326ms 0.2ms 2.5MB 320ms 0ms v/clang+gc 0.4.10