Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

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

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Wren VS Dart 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
dart 1.dart 1485ms 9.0ms 70.6MB 1513ms 33ms dart/exe 3.13.4
wren 1.wren 18359ms 175ms 122.3MB 18307ms 37ms wren 0.4.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 615ms 12ms 40.9MB 607ms 13ms dart/exe 3.13.4
wren 1.wren 1601ms 19ms 122.2MB 1547ms 37ms wren 0.4.0

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wren 1.wren 604ms 4.3ms 4.7MB 590ms 0ms wren 0.4.0
dart 1.dart 9125ms 113ms 18.3MB 10160ms 83ms dart/exe 3.13.4

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wren 1.wren 45ms 1.6ms 3.2MB 37ms 0ms wren 0.4.0
dart 1.dart 545ms 7.6ms 9.6MB 550ms 17ms dart/exe 3.13.4

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wren 1.wren 3.2ms 1.0ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms wren 0.4.0
dart 1.dart 4.6ms 0.7ms 5.6MB 0ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 3.dart 763ms 1.7ms 5.5MB 750ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
wren 1.wren 80930ms 4424ms 135.7MB 80847ms 60ms wren 0.4.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 3.dart 84ms 3.0ms 5.8MB 70ms 3ms dart/exe 3.13.4
wren 1.wren 7840ms 216ms 135.6MB 7780ms 43ms wren 0.4.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 8696ms 5.2ms 6.3MB 8683ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
dart 1.dart 11051ms 5.3ms 5.8MB 11040ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
wren 1.wren timeout (300s) — — — — wren 0.4.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 2185ms 2.8ms 5.7MB 2173ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
dart 1.dart 2766ms 11ms 5.9MB 2757ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
wren 1.wren timeout (120s) — — — — wren 0.4.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 554ms 2.3ms 5.7MB 540ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
dart 1.dart 701ms 3.2ms 5.8MB 690ms 0ms dart/exe 3.13.4
wren 1.wren 44500ms 547ms 7.7MB 44483ms 0ms wren 0.4.0