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Zig VS Codon benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Dec 31 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 1616ms 20ms 49.1MB 1590ms 10ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 142ms 0.5ms 7.1MB 130ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 2162ms 6.9ms 2.5MB 2130ms 13ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 368ms 1.2ms 1.9MB 347ms 10ms zig 0.13.0

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 614ms 3.4ms 3.6MB 2297ms 3ms zig 0.13.0
zig 3-i.zig 1689ms 4.7ms 1.1MB 1680ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 2336ms 14ms 1.1MB 2327ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 2710ms 6.9ms 1.1MB 2700ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 60ms 2.7ms 3.5MB 183ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 3-i.zig 142ms 1.7ms 1.1MB 130ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 190ms 3.5ms 1.1MB 180ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 227ms 2.4ms 1.1MB 220ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 81ms 0.5ms 1.1MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 10ms 0.6ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 0.9ms 0.0ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
codon 1.py 4.0ms 0.7ms 7.1MB 0ms 0ms codon 0.17.0

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 746ms 5.8ms 21.8MB 720ms 10ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 84ms 2.3ms 7.5MB 67ms 3ms zig 0.13.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 33ms 1.3ms 2.9MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 90ms 3.0ms 2.9MB 83ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 14ms 0.1ms 1.4MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 237ms 4.1ms 4.2MB 227ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 12ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 790ms 14ms 41.1MB 763ms 10ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 160ms 1.9ms 11.1MB 147ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 258ms 1.8ms 1.1MB 247ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 300ms 6.3ms 1.3MB 290ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
codon 1.py 1232ms 11ms 5.8MB 1220ms 0ms codon 0.17.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 27ms 0.1ms 1.1MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 33ms 0.3ms 1.3MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
codon 1.py 131ms 4.2ms 7.7MB 120ms 0ms codon 0.17.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 240ms 5.5ms 40.3MB 223ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 316ms 1.6ms 6.1MB 303ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
codon 1.py 348ms 9.8ms 46.5MB 333ms 0ms codon 0.17.0
codon 2.py 805ms 5.6ms 99.9MB 790ms 13ms codon 0.17.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 49ms 1.2ms 11.0MB 33ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
codon 1.py 71ms 1.3ms 15.3MB 57ms 0ms codon 0.17.0
zig 2.zig 78ms 0.3ms 2.4MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
codon 2.py 185ms 0.8ms 25.8MB 170ms 3ms codon 0.17.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 2339ms 5.6ms 2.2MB 2307ms 17ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 536ms 2.8ms 1.8MB 520ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 450ms 8.0ms 3.8MB 1500ms 7ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 872ms 1.5ms 1.5MB 860ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 3472ms 17ms 1.5MB 3463ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 119ms 0.9ms 3.7MB 250ms 3ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 218ms 2.6ms 1.4MB 203ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 875ms 2.0ms 1.4MB 867ms 0ms zig 0.13.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 37ms 1.7ms 3.7MB 30ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 2.zig 56ms 0.1ms 1.4MB 50ms 0ms zig 0.13.0
zig 1.zig 224ms 2.6ms 1.4MB 213ms 0ms zig 0.13.0