Chapel versus Go fastest performance

Always look at the source code.

If the fastest programs are hand-written vector instructions, does the host language matter? You might be more interested in the less optimised programs — more seconds, less gz source code.

fannkuch-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #2	8.09	10,932	731	32.18
Go #3	8.25	10,936	969	32.92
Go	11.83	11,128	900	47.26
Go #2	11.89	12,708	896	47.47
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #3	5.60	10,940	960	5.61
Chapel #2	6.10	10,940	971	6.11
Go #3	6.36	11,244	1200	6.37
Go	6.55	11,244	1310	6.56
Go #2	6.94	11,244	1215	6.95
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #2	0.73	10,948	335	2.89
Go	5.31	11,244	411	5.32
Go #4	1.42	11,244	548	5.67
Go #2	1.44	11,244	668	5.67
Chapel	1.45	10,948	310	5.75
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #3	1.90	37,372	591	7.55
Go #3	3.73	36,140	894	14.86
Go #4	3.73	36,116	905	14.87
Go	4.92	33,624	823	19.65
Chapel	6.61	37,436	460	26.38
Go #2	6.76	33,928	837	26.97
Go #6	6.83	33,632	700	27.22
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #2	0.75	10,940	423	0.76
Chapel #4	0.75	10,940	509	0.76
Go #4	1.01	11,244	683	1.02
Go	1.37	11,244	708	1.38
Go #3	1.63	11,244	603	1.66
Go #2	1.97	11,244	733	2.00
Go #8	2.46	11,244	720	2.46
Go #7	4.80	23,844	696	5.31
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #3	3.63	551,844	492	4.57
Chapel #2	4.50	551,924	489	5.43
Go #5	4.14	302,280	810	6.25
Go #4	14.80	360,260	829	34.62
Go #3	27.89	368,528	829	67.15
Go	28.35	317,752	741	67.40
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #6	0.79	10,880	1104	0.80
Chapel #5	0.94	10,880	1391	3.47
Go	3.78	11,128	1053	3.78
Go #3	1.49	11,136	1358	4.10
Chapel #3	4.12	10,880	1229	4.13
Go #2	1.26	11,136	1404	4.26
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #4	5.66	192,092	1031	20.12
Chapel #3	6.50	198,044	1007	23.41
Go #7	7.48	166,412	1607	28.68
Go #6	7.96	148,080	1590	29.25
Go #3	8.28	148,412	1722	29.93
Go #4	9.50	142,624	1543	31.55
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #2	1.76	814,544	611	1.80
Go #3	1.96	814,352	605	2.00
Go #6	1.33	1,278,596	1338	2.46
Chapel #8	0.91	1,056,436	1298	2.70
Chapel #3	1.57	1,884,484	764	2.93
Chapel #5	1.69	1,884,480	610	2.99
Go #5		Bad Output
Go		Failed
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #3	8.09	300,444	488	24.60
Go #6	27.82	410,808	611	28.59
Go #5	14.70	406,544	950	57.87
Go #2	14.69	642,688	666	58.49
Go #3	15.07	342,008	799	58.61
Go #7	33.37	247,824	525	60.85
Go	34.62	236,728	482	61.41
Chapel	chpl version 1.29.0 built with LLVM version 14.0.0 Copyright 2020-2022 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP Copyright 2004-2019 Cray Inc.
Go	go version go1.20 linux/amd64 GOAMD64=v2