Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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Haxe VS Python 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
haxe 1.hx 1998ms 20ms 144.3MB 2477ms 77ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 2.hx 6372ms 102ms 497.2MB 7260ms 237ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 11298ms 16ms 42.2MB 11140ms 137ms cpython 3.12.3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 128ms 4.9ms 25.9MB 150ms 7ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 2.hx 557ms 7.0ms 58.4MB 620ms 20ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 1013ms 82ms 14.0MB 993ms 3ms cpython 3.12.3

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 2384ms 63ms 27.8MB 2297ms 237ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 5-m.py 4266ms 218ms 18.4MB 7193ms 1040ms cpython 3.12.3
python 1.py 6168ms 31ms 10.1MB 6150ms 7ms cpython 3.12.3

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 256ms 9.2ms 27.8MB 220ms 40ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 648ms 13ms 10.1MB 633ms 3ms cpython 3.12.3
python 5-m.py 719ms 17ms 18.5MB 943ms 193ms cpython 3.12.3

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 2.5ms 0.4ms 4.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 24ms 2.6ms 10.2MB 16ms 0ms cpython 3.12.3

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 190ms 5.1ms 20.7MB 170ms 7ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 1596ms 22ms 13.1MB 1573ms 3ms cpython 3.12.3
python 2.py 1925ms 15ms 10.1MB 1907ms 3ms cpython 3.12.3

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 535ms 15ms 25.9MB 513ms 17ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 4622ms 61ms 13.2MB 4603ms 3ms cpython 3.12.3
python 2.py 5717ms 152ms 10.2MB 5700ms 0ms cpython 3.12.3

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 94ms 11ms 12.4MB 80ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 773ms 12ms 13.1MB 760ms 0ms cpython 3.12.3
python 2.py 941ms 8.5ms 10.1MB 927ms 0ms cpython 3.12.3

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 1367ms 28ms 97.2MB 1520ms 53ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 34848ms 576ms 107.3MB 34757ms 73ms cpython 3.12.3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 256ms 5.1ms 26.9MB 270ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 5815ms 33ms 34.4MB 5790ms 7ms cpython 3.12.3

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 3.hx 1936ms 75ms 27.9MB 2257ms 33ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 2.hx 10095ms 51ms 4.0MB 10083ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 1.hx 13236ms 113ms 3.9MB 13220ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 39068ms 95ms 10.2MB 39050ms 0ms cpython 3.12.3
python 2.py 41152ms 307ms 11.3MB 41133ms 0ms cpython 3.12.3

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 3.hx 204ms 8.1ms 25.9MB 213ms 13ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 2.hx 1019ms 9.8ms 3.9MB 1010ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 1.hx 1354ms 71ms 4.0MB 1340ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 1.py 3811ms 20ms 10.2MB 3797ms 0ms cpython 3.12.3
python 2.py 4147ms 89ms 10.2MB 4137ms 0ms cpython 3.12.3

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 11522ms 53ms 9.3MB 11510ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 8.py timeout (300s) — — — — cpython 3.12.3

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 2882ms 41ms 6.6MB 2867ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 8.py timeout (120s) — — — — cpython 3.12.3

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 760ms 69ms 5.6MB 750ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
python 8-m.py 34942ms 580ms 20.5MB 135877ms 227ms cpython 3.12.3