Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Perl VS C# 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
csharp 1.cs 1295ms 11ms 187.1MB 1320ms 160ms dotnet 9.0.318
perl 1.pl 28055ms 391ms 77.2MB 28003ms 33ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 1.cs 287ms 27ms 55.0MB 213ms 33ms dotnet 9.0.318
perl 1.pl 2485ms 46ms 13.8MB 2467ms 3ms perl 5.38.2

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 5-m.cs 228ms 1.4ms 45.9MB 590ms 100ms dotnet 9.0.318
perl 1.pl 6630ms 80ms 10.6MB 6613ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 5-m.cs 89ms 8.4ms 41.0MB 130ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.318
perl 1.pl 657ms 22ms 6.3MB 643ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 2.8ms 0.7ms 3.8MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.38.2
csharp 1.cs 46ms 3.5ms 24.6MB 30ms 2ms dotnet 9.0.318

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 8.cs 783ms 1.5ms 29.6MB 760ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.318
csharp 9.cs 997ms 4.7ms 29.6MB 967ms 17ms dotnet 9.0.318
perl 2.pl 42316ms 505ms 5.8MB 42303ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 8.cs 159ms 7.2ms 30.1MB 140ms 3ms dotnet 9.0.318
csharp 9.cs 228ms 3.1ms 29.9MB 203ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.318
perl 2.pl 4206ms 31ms 5.8MB 4193ms 0ms perl 5.38.2

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 3-m.cs 5928ms 20ms 33.5MB 23127ms 17ms dotnet 9.0.318
perl 4-m.pl 126524ms 1315ms 13.2MB 496153ms 227ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 3-m.cs 1536ms 1.6ms 34.0MB 5793ms 13ms dotnet 9.0.318
perl 4-m.pl 31168ms 843ms 11.7MB 121797ms 47ms perl 5.38.2

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 3-m.cs 449ms 3.7ms 33.3MB 1487ms 17ms dotnet 9.0.318
perl 4-m.pl 7425ms 112ms 9.9MB 28747ms 17ms perl 5.38.2