Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Perl VS Dart 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
dart 1.dart 1485ms 9.0ms 70.6MB 1513ms 33ms dart/exe 3.13.4
perl 1.pl 28055ms 391ms 77.2MB 28003ms 33ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 615ms 12ms 40.9MB 607ms 13ms dart/exe 3.13.4
perl 1.pl 2485ms 46ms 13.8MB 2467ms 3ms perl 5.38.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 453ms 23ms 8.5MB 443ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
perl 1.pl 6630ms 80ms 10.6MB 6613ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 52ms 3.1ms 8.5MB 40ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
perl 1.pl 657ms 22ms 6.3MB 643ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.8ms 0.7ms 3.8MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.38.2
dart 1.dart 4.6ms 0.7ms 5.6MB 0ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 3.dart 763ms 1.7ms 5.5MB 750ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
perl 2.pl 42316ms 505ms 5.8MB 42303ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 3.dart 84ms 3.0ms 5.8MB 70ms 3ms dart/exe 3.13.4
perl 2.pl 4206ms 31ms 5.8MB 4193ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 8696ms 5.2ms 6.3MB 8683ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
dart 1.dart 11051ms 5.3ms 5.8MB 11040ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
perl 4-m.pl 126524ms 1315ms 13.2MB 496153ms 227ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 2185ms 2.8ms 5.7MB 2173ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
dart 1.dart 2766ms 11ms 5.9MB 2757ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
perl 4-m.pl 31168ms 843ms 11.7MB 121797ms 47ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 554ms 2.3ms 5.7MB 540ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
dart 1.dart 701ms 3.2ms 5.8MB 690ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
perl 4-m.pl 7425ms 112ms 9.9MB 28747ms 17ms perl 5.38.2