Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Racket 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.)

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
racket 3.rkt 927ms 12ms 70.4MB 873ms 37ms racket 8.10.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
racket 3.rkt 240ms 10ms 65.0MB 200ms 27ms racket 8.10.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 1.7ms 0.2ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 1.c 1.8ms 0.3ms 1.6MB 0ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
racket 1.rkt 140ms 4.8ms 65.2MB 98ms 26ms racket 8.10.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 393ms 4.7ms 1.1MB 387ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 5.c 483ms 1.6ms 1.5MB 470ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
c 2.c 520ms 1.4ms 1.0MB 510ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 5.c 541ms 2.5ms 1.1MB 530ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 2.c 549ms 1.2ms 1.5MB 540ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
c 8-i.c 555ms 0.8ms 1.5MB 550ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
racket 2.rkt 1577ms 23ms 70.6MB 1533ms 30ms racket 8.10.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 42ms 1.4ms 1.1MB 30ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 5.c 52ms 1.1ms 1.5MB 40ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
c 2.c 55ms 0.3ms 1.1MB 50ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 5.c 59ms 2.8ms 1.1MB 50ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 2.c 59ms 1.7ms 1.5MB 50ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
c 8-i.c 61ms 3.7ms 1.5MB 53ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
racket 2.rkt 315ms 11ms 70.3MB 267ms 33ms racket 8.10.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
racket 1.rkt 5907ms 26ms 71.7MB 5850ms 43ms racket 8.10.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
racket 1.rkt 1499ms 12ms 72.1MB 1453ms 30ms racket 8.10.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 6-im.c 1696ms 2.3ms 5.2MB 6667ms 17ms clang 18.1.3
c 6-im.c 1825ms 12ms 2.1MB 7167ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 4-m.c 2992ms 24ms 5.2MB 11847ms 10ms clang 18.1.3
c 4-m.c 3065ms 33ms 2.4MB 12143ms 3ms gcc 13.3.0
c 5-im.c 3141ms 26ms 5.2MB 12413ms 10ms clang 18.1.3
c 5-im.c 3152ms 6.6ms 1.4MB 12477ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 3-m.c 5834ms 6.1ms 3.3MB 23127ms 10ms clang 18.1.3
c 3-m.c 5845ms 11ms 1.4MB 23160ms 3ms gcc 13.3.0
racket 3-m.rkt 8215ms 100ms 67.8MB 31520ms 47ms racket 8.10.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 6-im.c 435ms 3.9ms 3.3MB 1680ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
c 6-im.c 503ms 87ms 1.1MB 1907ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 5-im.c 787ms 0.9ms 1.4MB 3087ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 5-im.c 790ms 4.1ms 3.3MB 3097ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
c 4-m.c 790ms 73ms 3.2MB 3080ms 3ms clang 18.1.3
c 4-m.c 834ms 106ms 1.5MB 3233ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 3-m.c 1463ms 1.5ms 1.4MB 5773ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 3-m.c 1467ms 4.2ms 3.3MB 5757ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
racket 3-m.rkt 2097ms 14ms 67.5MB 7660ms 37ms racket 8.10.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 6-im.c 116ms 0.7ms 5.6MB 420ms 7ms clang 18.1.3
c 6-im.c 123ms 0.3ms 3.1MB 453ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 4-m.c 200ms 6.3ms 3.2MB 733ms 7ms clang 18.1.3
c 4-m.c 200ms 0.9ms 1.4MB 763ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 5-im.c 202ms 2.1ms 5.2MB 753ms 3ms clang 18.1.3
c 5-im.c 208ms 3.0ms 1.4MB 790ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
c 3-m.c 370ms 0.5ms 3.3MB 1430ms 0ms clang 18.1.3
c 3-m.c 371ms 0.9ms 1.5MB 1440ms 0ms gcc 13.3.0
racket 3-m.rkt 640ms 14ms 67.1MB 1983ms 33ms racket 8.10.0