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Zig VS Dart benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Mar 25 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
dart 1.dart 717ms 2.7ms 80.8MB 687ms 40ms dart/exe 3.7.2
zig 1.zig 1906ms 32ms 49.0MB 1873ms 17ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 75ms 0.5ms 42.8MB 53ms 13ms dart/exe 3.7.2
zig 1.zig 153ms 1.1ms 7.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 2275ms 0.2ms 2.5MB 2243ms 17ms zig 0.14.0
dart 1.dart 3711ms 21ms 18.1MB 3677ms 27ms dart/exe 3.7.2

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 384ms 2.2ms 1.9MB 370ms 3ms zig 0.14.0
dart 1.dart 600ms 5.3ms 10.4MB 580ms 13ms dart/exe 3.7.2

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2-m.zig 637ms 0.7ms 1.4MB 2403ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 1766ms 4.1ms 1.0MB 1753ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 2.dart 2713ms 10ms 6.1MB 2700ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2
zig 1.zig 2713ms 3.8ms 1.0MB 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 0.8ms 1.4MB 200ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 3-i.zig 148ms 0.2ms 1.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 2.dart 222ms 2.7ms 6.3MB 213ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2
zig 1.zig 230ms 0.3ms 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 88ms 1.2ms 1.0MB 80ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 1.dart 360ms 2.3ms 8.8MB 350ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2

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
dart 1.dart 43ms 0.2ms 9.0MB 30ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 1.dart 4.0ms 0.1ms 5.5MB 0ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 500ms 4.6ms 26.3MB 480ms 7ms zig 0.14.0
dart 3-m.dart 1161ms 73ms 276.5MB 3430ms 107ms dart/exe 3.7.2

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 66ms 0.7ms 15.3MB 50ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 3-m.dart 213ms 2.9ms 187.8MB 537ms 57ms dart/exe 3.7.2

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 33ms 0.3ms 2.8MB 23ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 2.dart 169ms 0.8ms 9.1MB 157ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2
dart 1.dart 496ms 2.5ms 9.1MB 480ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 95ms 2.4ms 2.8MB 87ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 2.dart 488ms 15ms 9.1MB 473ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2
dart 1.dart 1458ms 8.1ms 9.3MB 1440ms 7ms dart/exe 3.7.2

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 16ms 1.3ms 1.3MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 2.dart 80ms 5.0ms 9.3MB 67ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2
dart 1.dart 117ms 5.6ms 8.9MB 107ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2

mandelbrot

Input: 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 247ms 0.1ms 4.0MB 240ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 12ms 0.2ms 1.1MB 10ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 323ms 0.9ms 63.8MB 300ms 23ms dart/exe 3.7.2
zig 1.zig 878ms 6.2ms 41.0MB 853ms 10ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 86ms 0.7ms 43.8MB 60ms 17ms dart/exe 3.7.2
zig 1.zig 181ms 5.2ms 11.0MB 167ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 280ms 0.4ms 1.0MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 315ms 1.2ms 1.1MB 303ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 3.dart 409ms 3.6ms 6.3MB 397ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 2.zig 30ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 1.zig 34ms 0.4ms 1.1MB 27ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 3.dart 46ms 0.9ms 6.3MB 37ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 283ms 4.4ms 40.1MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 331ms 3.8ms 6.0MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 56ms 2.5ms 10.8MB 47ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 81ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 1358ms 4.5ms 14.8MB 1323ms 33ms dart/exe 3.7.2
zig 1.zig 2466ms 27ms 2.2MB 2440ms 17ms zig 0.14.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 337ms 9.7ms 14.8MB 317ms 13ms dart/exe 3.7.2
zig 1.zig 569ms 3.4ms 1.8MB 557ms 0ms zig 0.14.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 3697ms 9.3ms 1.4MB 3690ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 1.dart 3784ms 4.2ms 6.4MB 3773ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2
dart 2.dart 4350ms 3.2ms 6.4MB 4340ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 925ms 2.3ms 1.3MB 917ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 1.dart 946ms 0.6ms 6.1MB 933ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2
dart 2.dart 1099ms 6.1ms 6.3MB 1087ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 234ms 0.2ms 1.3MB 230ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
dart 1.dart 242ms 2.3ms 6.3MB 230ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2
dart 2.dart 278ms 0.5ms 6.1MB 270ms 0ms dart/exe 3.7.2