Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Wren VS Julia 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
julia 4.jl 1258ms 4.8ms 271.5MB 1430ms 57ms julia 1.11.9
wren 1.wren 18359ms 175ms 122.3MB 18307ms 37ms wren 0.4.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 4.jl 359ms 19ms 274.0MB 420ms 63ms julia 1.11.9
wren 1.wren 1601ms 19ms 122.2MB 1547ms 37ms wren 0.4.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wren 1.wren 604ms 4.3ms 4.7MB 590ms 0ms wren 0.4.0

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wren 1.wren 45ms 1.6ms 3.2MB 37ms 0ms wren 0.4.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wren 1.wren 3.2ms 1.0ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms wren 0.4.0
julia 1.jl 140ms 4.0ms 226.2MB 106ms 48ms julia 1.11.9

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 7.jl 902ms 17ms 271.9MB 960ms 67ms julia 1.11.9
wren 1.wren 80930ms 4424ms 135.7MB 80847ms 60ms wren 0.4.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 7.jl 585ms 2.5ms 275.1MB 660ms 47ms julia 1.11.9
wren 1.wren 7840ms 216ms 135.6MB 7780ms 43ms wren 0.4.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 3585ms 4.8ms 243.3MB 13187ms 50ms julia 1.11.9
julia 3-m.jl 3821ms 2.0ms 273.2MB 13607ms 63ms julia 1.11.9
wren 1.wren timeout (300s) — — — — wren 0.4.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 1217ms 7.1ms 249.3MB 3887ms 53ms julia 1.11.9
julia 3-m.jl 1456ms 8.8ms 274.6MB 4257ms 63ms julia 1.11.9
wren 1.wren timeout (120s) — — — — wren 0.4.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 643ms 4.4ms 241.6MB 1620ms 37ms julia 1.11.9
julia 3-m.jl 868ms 12ms 279.5MB 1930ms 70ms julia 1.11.9
wren 1.wren 44500ms 547ms 7.7MB 44483ms 0ms wren 0.4.0