notseanray / lang-test

which language can count the fastest?

basic language speed test

This is NOT a comprehensive test at all, I am simply bored. Languages have much more to them than which can count faster.

The test involves simple conditions, calculate the fibonacci sequence until it is past 999 million, then repeat this task 1 billion times.

This only measures the speed of handling these integers but I found the results very interesting.

I've added some extra math to force compilers to not completely inline the loops.

Language	time (seconds)	time (minutes)	memory usage	binary size	info
asm (nasm)	23.21 seconds	0.39 minutes	4 KiB	4.8 KiB	v2.15.05-1 elf64
Rust	24.34 seconds	0.41 minutes	976 KiB	281 KiB	v1.60.0, target release
Go	31.00 seconds	0.52 minutes	1 MiB	1.7 MiB	v1.18.1
v	31.76 seconds	0.53 minutes	900 KiB	105 KiB	0.2.4 441637e prod
C++ (gcc)	32.01 seconds	0.53 minutes	2 MiB	16 KiB	v11.2.1, Ofast, march native, std 20
C (gcc)	33.91 seconds	0.57 minutes	884 KiB	15 KiB	v11.2.1, Ofast, march native, C99
Zig	35.54 seconds	0.59 minutes	4 KiB	100 KiB	v0.9.1, ReleaseFast
C++ (clang)	35.63 seconds	0.59 minutes	2 MiB	16 KiB	v13.0.1, O3, march native, std 20
C (clang)	35.84 seconds	0.60 minutes	904 KiB	15 KiB	v13.0.1, O3, march native, C99
Python jit	38.36 seconds	0.64 minutes	121 MiB		v3.9.11, numba v0.55.1
Java	53.65 seconds	0.90 minutes	33 MiB	1.2 KiB	openjdk v17.0.2
Java	56.21 seconds	0.94 minutes	33 MiB	1.2 KiB	openjdk v11.0.14
Luajit	235.63 seconds	3.93 minutes	1 MiB		v2.05
node JS	525.52 seconds	8.76 minutes	37 MiB		v14.17.6
Nim node JS danger	530.19 seconds	8.84 minutes	35 MiB		v16.14.2 (compiled with Nim v1.6.0)
Nim native	972.87 seconds	16.21 minutes	996 Ki B	110 KiB	v1.6.6
bun JS	1747.23 seconds	29.12 minutes	33 MiB		v0.1.2
Nim bun JS danger	1769.79 seconds	29.50 minutes	33 MiB		v0.1.2 (compiled with Nim v1.6.0)
clojurescript	11981.65 seconds	199.42 minutes	84 MiB		v1.11.1.1113
mksh	9653.42 seconds	160.9 minutes	896 KiB		R59
Python 3	10330.98 seconds	172.2 minutes	9 MiB		v3.9.11
Lua	11319.46 seconds	188.7 minutes	1 MiB		v5.1.5
bash	12964.01 seconds	216.1 minutes	3 MiB		v5.1.16
Nim node JS release	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	v1.6.0 over/underflow error
Nim bun JS release	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	v1.6.0 over/underflow error

relevant hardware

• CPU: Ryzen 7 1700 @ 3.8ghz (all test were single threaded)
• RAM: 16 gb DDR4 @ 2133mhz
• Gentoo Linux
• Kernel 5.18.1

future test

• deno with JS
• Kotlin
• pearl
• ruby

If you notice any issues create an issue or PR, in the future I hope to test memory performance. I am not experienced in many of these languages, so if the test is coded in a poor way then please make a PR!