Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Julia 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
julia 4.jl 1258ms 4.8ms 271.5MB 1430ms 57ms julia 1.11.9
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
julia 4.jl 359ms 19ms 274.0MB 420ms 63ms julia 1.11.9
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

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 1550ms 12ms 258.8MB 4867ms 43ms julia 1.11.9

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 746ms 6.3ms 265.5MB 1783ms 53ms julia 1.11.9

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 7-m.jl 779ms 32ms 301.9MB 1830ms 90ms julia 1.11.9
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
ruby 6.rb 621ms 1.8ms 25.0MB 597ms 7ms ruby 3.2.3
julia 7-m.jl 639ms 5.9ms 262.4MB 1400ms 70ms julia 1.11.9
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
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
julia 1.jl 140ms 4.0ms 226.2MB 106ms 48ms julia 1.11.9

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 8-m.jl 2502ms 43ms 314.2MB 4443ms 80ms julia 1.11.9

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 8-m.jl 1884ms 2.6ms 305.9MB 2873ms 70ms 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
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
julia 7.jl 585ms 2.5ms 275.1MB 660ms 47ms julia 1.11.9
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

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 1.jl 664ms 3.2ms 250.6MB 710ms 47ms julia 1.11.9
ruby 1.rb 25887ms 459ms 493.1MB 25683ms 183ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 25973ms 509ms 493.0MB 25737ms 220ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 1.jl 410ms 1.6ms 247.9MB 453ms 47ms julia 1.11.9
ruby 1.rb 6454ms 102ms 141.4MB 6377ms 63ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 6477ms 132ms 141.4MB 6400ms 63ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 3.jl 812ms 13ms 233.8MB 913ms 43ms julia 1.11.9
julia 1.jl 1519ms 35ms 287.5MB 1510ms 140ms julia 1.11.9
ruby 1.rb 11411ms 21ms 122.0MB 11350ms 40ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 11438ms 47ms 123.6MB 11370ms 57ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 3.jl 375ms 2.7ms 233.9MB 423ms 40ms julia 1.11.9
julia 1.jl 822ms 14ms 288.4MB 853ms 93ms julia 1.11.9
ruby 1.rb 2813ms 16ms 124.1MB 2747ms 47ms ruby 3.2.3
ruby 1.rb 2836ms 11ms 123.9MB 2773ms 43ms ruby/yjit 3.2.3

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
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
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
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
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
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