Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Codon VS Wasm 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
wasm 1.rs 7.3ms 0.6ms 18.9MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 48.0.2
codon 1.py 9.9ms 0.8ms 10.9MB 7ms 3ms codon 0.20.2

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 621ms 3.5ms 16.6MB 603ms 0ms wasmtime 48.0.2
wasm 2.rs 622ms 5.9ms 16.5MB 610ms 0ms wasmtime 48.0.2
codon 1.py 2621ms 35ms 11.0MB 2900ms 0ms codon 0.20.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 72ms 1.4ms 16.4MB 60ms 0ms wasmtime 48.0.2
wasm 2.rs 74ms 5.5ms 16.7MB 63ms 0ms wasmtime 48.0.2
codon 1-m.py 357ms 59ms 11.0MB 610ms 0ms codon 0.20.2

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 731ms 5.1ms 22.5MB 717ms 0ms wasmtime 48.0.2
wasm 1.rs 1119ms 2.6ms 57.6MB 1100ms 0ms wasmtime 48.0.2
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

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 151ms 0.5ms 17.2MB 140ms 0ms wasmtime 48.0.2
wasm 1.rs 215ms 1.1ms 27.5MB 197ms 0ms wasmtime 48.0.2
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