Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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OCaml VS Ruby 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
ocaml 1.ml 5051ms 131ms 156.9MB 4967ms 63ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 11360ms 112ms 87.8MB 11283ms 57ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 11813ms 6.3ms 87.9MB 11740ms 57ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 379ms 6.4ms 19.3MB 360ms 3ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 1118ms 12ms 30.2MB 1087ms 17ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 1172ms 15ms 30.3MB 1137ms 20ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 3708ms 10ms 2.7MB 3697ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 341ms 78ms 4.8MB 327ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 6.ml 349ms 5.9ms 23.0MB 333ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 6.rb 5551ms 66ms 33.6MB 5523ms 13ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 6.rb 5694ms 44ms 33.6MB 5653ms 23ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 6.ml 41ms 1.4ms 5.5MB 27ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 6.rb 621ms 1.8ms 25.0MB 597ms 7ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 6.rb 651ms 3.1ms 24.9MB 620ms 17ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 2.3ms 0.5ms 3.1MB 0ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 85ms 4.7ms 22.6MB 64ms 12ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 95ms 7.0ms 22.5MB 62ms 18ms ruby 3.2.3

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 271ms 4.6ms 6.5MB 257ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 861ms 5.6ms 22.8MB 833ms 17ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 879ms 15ms 22.7MB 860ms 7ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 760ms 12ms 6.4MB 750ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 2450ms 53ms 22.8MB 2420ms 13ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 2468ms 49ms 22.8MB 2437ms 13ms ruby 3.2.3

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 131ms 26ms 5.9MB 120ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 474ms 9.8ms 22.8MB 447ms 13ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 482ms 2.1ms 22.8MB 457ms 10ms ruby 3.2.3

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 1750ms 70ms 71.3MB 1707ms 27ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 3254ms 22ms 92.0MB 3210ms 30ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 27746ms 105ms 103.9MB 27650ms 80ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 27918ms 153ms 104.0MB 27813ms 87ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 285ms 24ms 21.8MB 267ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 599ms 0.6ms 27.8MB 570ms 10ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 6147ms 56ms 44.0MB 6087ms 47ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 6156ms 36ms 44.0MB 6097ms 43ms ruby 3.2.3

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 697ms 7.9ms 2.7MB 687ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 2.rb 46837ms 1570ms 22.6MB 46803ms 13ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 2.rb 47090ms 429ms 22.5MB 47053ms 13ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 75ms 1.3ms 2.7MB 67ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 2.rb 4685ms 47ms 22.6MB 4660ms 7ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 2.rb 4697ms 102ms 22.5MB 4673ms 10ms ruby 3.2.3

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 1803ms 29ms 547.7MB 1730ms 57ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 3669ms 69ms 19.0MB 3653ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 25887ms 459ms 493.1MB 25683ms 183ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 25973ms 509ms 493.0MB 25737ms 220ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 1.ml 424ms 2.5ms 133.8MB 393ms 13ms ocaml 5.3.0
ocaml 2.ml 745ms 19ms 9.3MB 730ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 1.rb 6454ms 102ms 141.4MB 6377ms 63ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 6477ms 132ms 141.4MB 6400ms 63ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 6927ms 135ms 485.2MB 6767ms 147ms ocaml 5.3.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 707ms 9.4ms 57.3MB 673ms 17ms ocaml 5.3.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 11056ms 13ms 4.6MB 11043ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 4.rb timeout (300s) — — — — ruby 3.2.3
ruby 4.rb timeout (300s) — — — — ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 2773ms 3.9ms 4.1MB 2760ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 4.rb 108151ms 898ms 24.1MB 108120ms 10ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 4.rb timeout (120s) — — — — ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ocaml 2.ml 702ms 3.3ms 3.3MB 687ms 0ms ocaml 5.3.0
ruby 4.rb 27651ms 1140ms 23.4MB 27623ms 10ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 4.rb 28446ms 2206ms 23.3MB 28410ms 13ms ruby 3.2.3