Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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Haxe VS Ruby 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
haxe 1.hx 1998ms 20ms 144.3MB 2477ms 77ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 2.hx 6372ms 102ms 497.2MB 7260ms 237ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 1.rb 11360ms 112ms 87.8MB 11283ms 57ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 11813ms 6.3ms 87.9MB 11740ms 57ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 128ms 4.9ms 25.9MB 150ms 7ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 2.hx 557ms 7.0ms 58.4MB 620ms 20ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 1.rb 1118ms 12ms 30.2MB 1087ms 17ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 1172ms 15ms 30.3MB 1137ms 20ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 2384ms 63ms 27.8MB 2297ms 237ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 6.rb 5551ms 66ms 33.6MB 5523ms 13ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 6.rb 5694ms 44ms 33.6MB 5653ms 23ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 256ms 9.2ms 27.8MB 220ms 40ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 6.rb 621ms 1.8ms 25.0MB 597ms 7ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 6.rb 651ms 3.1ms 24.9MB 620ms 17ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 2.5ms 0.4ms 4.9MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 1.rb 85ms 4.7ms 22.6MB 64ms 12ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 95ms 7.0ms 22.5MB 62ms 18ms ruby 3.2.3

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 190ms 5.1ms 20.7MB 170ms 7ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 1.rb 861ms 5.6ms 22.8MB 833ms 17ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 879ms 15ms 22.7MB 860ms 7ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 535ms 15ms 25.9MB 513ms 17ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 1.rb 2450ms 53ms 22.8MB 2420ms 13ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 2468ms 49ms 22.8MB 2437ms 13ms ruby 3.2.3

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 94ms 11ms 12.4MB 80ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 1.rb 474ms 9.8ms 22.8MB 447ms 13ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 482ms 2.1ms 22.8MB 457ms 10ms ruby 3.2.3

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 1367ms 28ms 97.2MB 1520ms 53ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 1.rb 27746ms 105ms 103.9MB 27650ms 80ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 27918ms 153ms 104.0MB 27813ms 87ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 256ms 5.1ms 26.9MB 270ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 1.rb 6147ms 56ms 44.0MB 6087ms 47ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 6156ms 36ms 44.0MB 6097ms 43ms ruby 3.2.3

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 3.hx 1936ms 75ms 27.9MB 2257ms 33ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 2.hx 10095ms 51ms 4.0MB 10083ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 1.hx 13236ms 113ms 3.9MB 13220ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 2.rb 46837ms 1570ms 22.6MB 46803ms 13ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 2.rb 47090ms 429ms 22.5MB 47053ms 13ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 3.hx 204ms 8.1ms 25.9MB 213ms 13ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 2.hx 1019ms 9.8ms 3.9MB 1010ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
haxe 1.hx 1354ms 71ms 4.0MB 1340ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 2.rb 4685ms 47ms 22.6MB 4660ms 7ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 2.rb 4697ms 102ms 22.5MB 4673ms 10ms ruby 3.2.3

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 11522ms 53ms 9.3MB 11510ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 4.rb timeout (300s) — — — — ruby 3.2.3
ruby 4.rb timeout (300s) — — — — ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 2882ms 41ms 6.6MB 2867ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 4.rb 108151ms 898ms 24.1MB 108120ms 10ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 4.rb timeout (120s) — — — — ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 760ms 69ms 5.6MB 750ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.3
ruby 4.rb 27651ms 1140ms 23.4MB 27623ms 10ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3
ruby 4.rb 28446ms 2206ms 23.3MB 28410ms 13ms ruby 3.2.3