Chapel versus Julia fastest performance

How the programs are written matters! 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
* Julia #2	8.49	251,248	1077	31.91
Chapel #2	8.42	19,620	737	33.54
* Julia #3	9.33	248,484	896	35.56
Julia	42.59	226,292	441	42.67
n-body
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #3	3.56	19,620	983	3.57
Julia #5	3.67	261,584	1129	3.77
Chapel #4	4.64	19,620	1027	4.64
Chapel #2	5.69	19,620	977	5.70
Julia #4	6.48	263,596	1168	6.57
Julia #3	6.92	264,476	1548	7.01
Julia #2	28.72	278,196	1084	28.92
spectral-norm
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #2	0.73	19,620	348	2.88
Julia #4	1.18	232,768	435	3.66
Julia #2	1.76	261,124	377	4.80
Chapel	1.46	19,620	322	5.77
mandelbrot
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #3	1.14	37,780	582	4.51
Julia #7	1.41	273,748	629	4.79
Julia #2	1.44	272,612	634	4.88
Julia #3	1.50	291,868	589	5.11
Julia #4	1.96	283,940	583	5.12
Julia #5	1.63	296,828	580	5.76
Julia #6	2.12	289,896	571	5.80
Chapel	6.64	37,820	447	26.47
Julia	26.55	254,964	379	26.63
fasta
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #6	0.79	19,620	1108	0.80
Julia #2	1.17	234,156	1094	1.25
Julia #5	2.57	250,416	957	2.66
Julia #4	2.62	236,892	1053	2.72
Chapel #5	0.97	19,620	1391	3.53
Chapel #3	4.03	19,620	1219	4.04
* Julia #6	2.12	353,084	1213	4.86
* Julia #7	1.87	348,656	1189	5.33
Julia #3	11.61	234,416	901	11.70
k-nucleotide
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Julia #6	6.03	429,688	965	14.32
Chapel #4	5.15	202,548	1074	17.53
Chapel #3	6.14	203,208	1044	21.26
Julia #7	8.87	479,756	1379	22.94
Julia	132.60	1,558,404	703	132.21
reverse-complement
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Julia #7	1.65	1,024,148	531	1.76
Julia #9	2.00	1,220,680	456	2.11
Chapel #9	0.98	1,057,244	1260	2.81
Chapel #3	1.69	2,133,608	709	3.07
Chapel #5	1.93	1,905,304	554	3.28
Julia #2	29.29	1,951,468	464	29.83
binary-trees
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #5	2.04	1,775,900	646	7.26
Julia #4	10.32	443,600	378	11.22
Julia #2	11.38	441,140	430	12.44
Julia #3	7.08	486,976	640	19.44
Chapel #3	8.57	303,104	494	25.97
Chapel #4	7.22	480,044	489	26.54
Julia #5	17.97	482,024	396	57.53
pidigits
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
Chapel #2	0.75	19,620	423	0.76
* Chapel #4	0.76	19,620	515	0.76
* Julia #3	1.04	223,936	512	1.18
* Julia #2	1.14	232,460	686	1.26
Julia #4	2.70	290,468	531	2.83
regex-redux
source	secs	mem	gz	cpu secs
* Julia #5	1.80	431,004	766	3.12
* Julia #4	1.89	433,140	772	3.22
* Julia #3	2.07	578,576	630	3.51
Chapel #3	3.11	404,924	503	4.05
Julia	4.10	606,148	414	4.24
Chapel #2	3.54	405,032	498	4.48
Chapel	chpl version 2.3.0 built with LLVM version 19.1.1 Copyright 2020-2024 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP Copyright 2004-2019 Cray Inc.
Julia	julia version 1.11.1