Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Results for 38 of 40 languages from this run on actest1.

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Chapel VS acton tip benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Sep 27 2026, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][4 cores] Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3687U CPU @ 2.10GHz (Model 58)

* -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
acton-tip 1-m.act 2062ms 22ms 38.6MB 3160ms 73ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
chapel 4.chpl 2730ms 14ms 64.8MB 2707ms 7ms chpl 2.9.0
chapel 3.chpl 3169ms 6.1ms 66.7MB 3147ms 13ms chpl 2.9.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 201ms 14ms 9.5MB 250ms 10ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
chapel 4.chpl 254ms 3.1ms 36.7MB 237ms 7ms chpl 2.9.0
chapel 3.chpl 292ms 6.5ms 34.8MB 267ms 10ms chpl 2.9.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 3525ms 26ms 223.5MB 6913ms 87ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1-m.act 14328ms 234ms 7.6MB 18857ms 13917ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 208ms 12ms 198.2MB 350ms 27ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1-m.act 882ms 3.4ms 12.3MB 1173ms 810ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 102ms 3.9ms 36.7MB 87ms 7ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 270ms 7.0ms 7.4MB 257ms 17ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 45ms 2.1ms 34.7MB 33ms 3ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 92ms 11ms 13.3MB 80ms 10ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5-m.chpl 183ms 21ms 30.7MB 330ms 0ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 1163ms 17ms 13.2MB 1090ms 167ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 5.chpl 34ms 4.1ms 32.7MB 40ms 0ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 141ms 7.0ms 21.2MB 120ms 17ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton-tip 1.act 3.9ms 0.4ms 5.9MB 0ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45
chapel 1.chpl 9.9ms 0.4ms 32.6MB 0ms 0ms chpl 2.9.0

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 1364ms 2.9ms 88.7MB 2573ms 23ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 45269ms 137ms 177.1MB 60153ms 433ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3-m.chpl 197ms 3.4ms 90.7MB 337ms 7ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 4678ms 30ms 67.7MB 6573ms 183ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 574ms 2.9ms 32.6MB 560ms 0ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 1280ms 12ms 4.0MB 1340ms 107ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 71ms 4.0ms 32.6MB 53ms 7ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 134ms 1.8ms 4.0MB 130ms 10ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 568ms 1.2ms 34.7MB 553ms 7ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1-m.act 3543ms 38ms 8.2MB 4797ms 1453ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 2.chpl 148ms 3.7ms 34.7MB 133ms 3ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1-m.act 893ms 20ms 7.3MB 1113ms 420ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 1885ms 8.8ms 183.6MB 1837ms 37ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1-m.act 91253ms 1460ms 708.4MB 199957ms 1813ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 3.chpl 206ms 3.4ms 47.1MB 190ms 7ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1-m.act 7551ms 187ms 122.9MB 14893ms 500ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 1641ms 12ms 30.7MB 1630ms 0ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 4706ms 37ms 4.0MB 5240ms 853ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1.chpl 423ms 3.4ms 32.7MB 413ms 0ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 1195ms 8.5ms 4.0MB 1330ms 203ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 5887ms 19ms 30.6MB 11737ms 7ms chpl 2.9.0
chapel 1.chpl 11110ms 28ms 30.7MB 11090ms 7ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 11288ms 25ms 5.8MB 11283ms 3ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 1478ms 1.2ms 32.6MB 2927ms 0ms chpl 2.9.0
chapel 1.chpl 2794ms 6.7ms 30.7MB 2783ms 0ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 2892ms 8.2ms 4.8MB 2887ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
chapel 1-m.chpl 380ms 1.0ms 30.6MB 727ms 3ms chpl 2.9.0
chapel 1.chpl 715ms 4.1ms 32.6MB 700ms 3ms chpl 2.9.0
acton-tip 1.act 737ms 7.4ms 12.2MB 730ms 0ms acton 0.30.0.20260927.9.45