Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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Codon 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.)

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1.py 9.9ms 0.8ms 10.9MB 7ms 3ms codon 0.20.2
python 1.py 24ms 2.6ms 10.2MB 16ms 0ms cpython 3.12.3

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 1.py 2621ms 35ms 11.0MB 2900ms 0ms codon 0.20.2
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
codon 1-m.py 357ms 59ms 11.0MB 610ms 0ms codon 0.20.2
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

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 2.py 1317ms 10ms 110.4MB 1597ms 10ms codon 0.20.2
codon 1.py 1510ms 4.1ms 49.9MB 1783ms 10ms codon 0.20.2
python 2.py 6899ms 14ms 635.1MB 6690ms 190ms cpython 3.12.3
python 1.py 16789ms 193ms 322.8MB 16707ms 63ms cpython 3.12.3

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
codon 2-m.py 292ms 4.4ms 29.3MB 570ms 3ms codon 0.20.2
codon 1-m.py 358ms 6.6ms 20.7MB 643ms 0ms codon 0.20.2
python 2.py 1734ms 18ms 166.4MB 1677ms 43ms cpython 3.12.3
python 1.py 3963ms 65ms 88.2MB 3933ms 10ms cpython 3.12.3