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
Go #3	8.33	19,664	975	33.25
Chapel #2	8.39	19,772	737	33.40
Go	11.74	19,664	906	46.77
Go #2	11.79	19,664	903	46.97
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #3	3.89	19,648	967	3.90
Chapel #2	5.65	19,648	977	5.65
Go #3	6.37	19,808	1207	6.38
Go	7.00	19,680	1316	7.02
Go #2	7.02	19,680	1222	7.03
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #2	0.74	19,648	348	2.89
Go	5.32	19,824	417	5.33
Go #2	1.53	19,824	674	5.67
Go #4	1.44	19,824	555	5.67
Chapel	1.47	19,776	322	5.79
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #3	1.17	37,760	582	4.64
Go #4	3.76	35,328	912	14.92
Go #3	3.76	35,456	900	14.94
Go	5.01	33,408	829	19.98
Chapel	6.66	37,632	447	26.42
Go #2	6.85	33,152	843	27.29
Go #6	6.89	32,768	707	27.40
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #4	0.75	19,648	515	0.76
Chapel #2	0.75	19,776	423	0.76
Go #4	0.95	19,808	689	0.97
Go	1.35	19,696	715	1.37
Go #3	1.58	19,824	610	1.62
Go #2	2.13	19,824	740	2.19
Go #8	2.49	19,696	727	2.50
Go #7	5.12	19,824	702	5.88
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #3	3.74	552,796	503	4.68
Go #5	3.17	320,972	817	5.38
Chapel #2	4.53	552,788	498	5.47
Go #4	14.51	368,680	832	34.26
Go	25.58	345,472	749	61.95
Go #3	25.72	402,968	836	62.19
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #6	0.79	19,648	1108	0.80
Chapel #5	0.95	19,772	1391	3.47
Go	3.73	19,804	1055	3.74
Chapel #3	4.01	19,772	1219	4.02
Go #2	1.26	19,672	1405	4.03
Go #3	1.50	19,664	1362	4.08
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #4	4.96	192,256	1071	17.07
Chapel #3	5.86	192,256	1040	20.64
Go #7	7.52	162,944	1613	28.68
Go #6	8.17	145,152	1596	29.90
Go #3	8.38	145,152	1729	30.32
Go #4	9.07	139,904	1552	30.33
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #2	2.21	802,176	614	2.30
Go #3	2.47	802,048	609	2.56
Chapel #8	0.95	1,057,024	1260	2.74
Chapel #3	1.68	1,618,560	709	3.23
Go #6	1.84	1,249,840	1340	3.30
Chapel #5	1.79	1,884,928	554	3.30
Go #5		Bad Output
Go		Failed
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Go #6	27.61	404,608	618	29.03
Chapel #3	8.69	367,360	494	29.22
Go #2	13.87	601,252	672	55.04
Go #5	14.37	308,092	957	56.80
Go #3	14.86	323,544	806	57.39
Go	30.97	262,396	488	57.95
Go #7	33.10	292,588	531	61.68
Chapel	chpl version 2.0.0 built with LLVM version 17.0.2 Copyright 2020-2024 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP Copyright 2004-2019 Cray Inc.
Go	go version go1.22.0 linux/amd64 GOAMD64=v2