Benchmarks · Julia Microbenchmarks

Each dot represents one benchmark for a given language, with time normalized to C (lower is better).

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C (gcc 13.3.0)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	8.01	1.00x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.01	1.00x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.38	1.00x
`parse_integers`	0.08	1.00x
`print_to_file`	7.66	1.00x
`matrix_statistics`	3.48	1.00x
`matrix_multiply`	51.76	1.00x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.05	1.00x

Julia (1.13.2)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	6.13	0.77x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.04	2.79x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.30	0.81x
`parse_integers`	0.07	0.88x
`print_to_file`	8.72	1.14x
`matrix_statistics`	3.27	0.94x
`matrix_multiply`	37.79	0.73x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.04	0.79x

Rust (1.99.1)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	6.34	0.79x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.03	2.18x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.31	0.82x
`parse_integers`	0.05	0.57x
`print_to_file`	3.54	0.46x
`matrix_statistics`	2.17	0.62x
`matrix_multiply`	49.53	0.96x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.05	0.91x

Go (go1.24.13)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	2.67	0.33x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.03	2.03x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.30	0.80x
`parse_integers`	0.07	0.84x
`print_to_file`	7.09	0.93x
`matrix_statistics`	13.40	3.85x
`matrix_multiply`	201.24	3.89x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.03	0.68x

Fortran (gcc 13.3.0)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	7.00	0.87x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.01	0.71x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.39	1.05x
`parse_integers`	0.06	0.70x
`print_to_file`	54.84	7.16x
`matrix_statistics`	5.09	1.46x
`matrix_multiply`	54.72	1.06x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.05	0.90x

Numba (0.68.0)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	4.63	0.58x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.02	1.90x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.30	0.81x
`parse_integers`	0.52	6.54x
`print_to_file`	19.41	2.54x
`matrix_statistics`	15.65	4.50x
`matrix_multiply`	26.02	0.50x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.03	0.64x

LuaJIT (2.1.1703358377)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	7.00	0.87x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.04	3.21x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.75	2.00x
`parse_integers`	0.10	1.23x
`print_to_file`	6.32	0.83x
`matrix_statistics`	7.25	2.09x
`matrix_multiply`	57.19	1.10x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.12	2.31x

Scala (3.3.4)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	7.02	0.88x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.03	2.10x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.62	1.64x
`parse_integers`	0.31	3.96x
`print_to_file`	10.73	1.40x
`matrix_statistics`	19.55	5.62x
`matrix_multiply`	71.01	1.37x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.12	2.28x

Java (24.0.2)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	6.43	0.80x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.04	3.57x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.72	1.91x
`parse_integers`	0.19	2.40x
`print_to_file`	45.42	5.93x
`matrix_statistics`	12.71	3.66x
`matrix_multiply`	163.11	3.15x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.10	1.99x

Swift (6.1.3)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	5.59	0.70x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.03	2.21x
`recursion_quicksort`	1.77	4.71x
`parse_integers`	0.42	5.30x
`print_to_file`	34.85	4.55x
`matrix_statistics`	78.22	22.49x
`matrix_multiply`	614.35	11.87x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	0.04	0.78x

JavaScript (V8 13.6.233.17-node.53)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	7.10	0.89x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.08	6.05x
`recursion_quicksort`	0.83	2.21x
`parse_integers`	0.19	2.39x
`print_to_file`	74.00	9.67x
`matrix_statistics`	43.40	12.48x
`matrix_multiply`	1148.00	22.18x

Python (3.13.16)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	379.12	47.32x
`recursion_fibonacci`	0.83	66.09x
`recursion_quicksort`	13.22	35.15x
`parse_integers`	0.94	11.84x
`print_to_file`	39.22	5.12x
`matrix_statistics`	33.03	9.50x
`matrix_multiply`	54.42	1.05x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	3.92	77.17x

R (4.5.1)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	179.00	22.34x
`recursion_fibonacci`	6.00	477.63x
`recursion_quicksort`	18.00	47.87x
`parse_integers`	2.00	25.21x
`print_to_file`	865.00	113.00x
`matrix_statistics`	45.00	12.94x
`matrix_multiply`	67.00	1.29x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	12.00	236.30x

Octave (8.4.0)

Benchmark	Time (ms)	Relative to C
`iteration_pi_sum`	3210.33	400.69x
`recursion_fibonacci`	66.03	5256.18x
`recursion_quicksort`	233.01	619.73x
`parse_integers`	18.38	231.65x
`print_to_file`	419.64	54.82x
`matrix_statistics`	66.17	19.03x
`matrix_multiply`	55.54	1.07x
`userfunc_mandelbrot`	166.02	3269.18x