Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Perl 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 2.pl 42316ms 505ms 5.8MB 42303ms 0ms perl 5.38.2
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
perl 2.pl 4206ms 31ms 5.8MB 4193ms 0ms perl 5.38.2
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
perl 4-m.pl 126524ms 1315ms 13.2MB 496153ms 227ms perl 5.38.2
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
perl 4-m.pl 31168ms 843ms 11.7MB 121797ms 47ms perl 5.38.2
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
perl 4-m.pl 7425ms 112ms 9.9MB 28747ms 17ms perl 5.38.2
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