Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Elixir VS Javascript 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.)

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 2468ms 28ms 43.1MB 2477ms 43ms bun 1.4.2
javascript 1.js 2691ms 14ms 190.8MB 2690ms 103ms node 24.21.0
elixir 1.ex 5705ms 28ms 95.3MB 6130ms 317ms elixir 15.2.7

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 154ms 0.2ms 34.1MB 153ms 0ms bun 1.4.2
javascript 1.js 263ms 13ms 74.4MB 257ms 27ms node 24.21.0
elixir 1.ex 687ms 26ms 91.2MB 853ms 163ms elixir 15.2.7

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 194ms 4.1ms 46.0MB 183ms 13ms bun 1.4.2
javascript 1.js 436ms 3.9ms 65.7MB 463ms 23ms node 24.21.0
elixir 1.ex timeout (120s) — — — — elixir 15.2.7

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 78ms 4.2ms 37.9MB 77ms 0ms bun 1.4.2
javascript 1.js 200ms 3.9ms 63.4MB 197ms 13ms node 24.21.0
elixir 1.ex 18934ms 249ms 89.8MB 19680ms 660ms elixir 15.2.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 6.7ms 1.0ms 12.5MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.4.2
javascript 1.js 53ms 4.8ms 50.0MB 36ms 6ms node 24.21.0
elixir 1.ex 313ms 17ms 86.7MB 366ms 88ms elixir 15.2.7

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
elixir 1.ex 2709ms 78ms 89.2MB 3030ms 930ms elixir 15.2.7
javascript 3.js 7848ms 31ms 122.0MB 7800ms 47ms node 24.21.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
elixir 1-m.ex 962ms 17ms 87.7MB 1167ms 357ms elixir 15.2.7
javascript 3.js 1755ms 72ms 73.9MB 1733ms 23ms node 24.21.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 6665ms 47ms 123.2MB 25650ms 83ms node 24.21.0
elixir 1.ex 157109ms 510ms 95.5MB 157083ms 160ms elixir 15.2.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 1827ms 2.8ms 123.8MB 6790ms 70ms node 24.21.0
elixir 1.ex 38614ms 362ms 99.3MB 38603ms 207ms elixir 15.2.7

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 639ms 8.0ms 119.1MB 2130ms 73ms node 24.21.0
elixir 1.ex 9814ms 27ms 90.8MB 9833ms 120ms elixir 15.2.7