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24.04 Benchmarks Game

Haskell GHC versus C gcc 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
C gcc #6 2.16 19,516 1582 8.53
C gcc #4 14.20 19,516 1190 14.20
C gcc #5 6.91 19,644 917 27.13
C gcc #3 39.57 19,516 574 39.57
C gcc 42.24 19,640 514 42.24
C gcc #2 11.16 19,644 1563 43.66
Haskell GHC #5 11.28 19,644 850 44.70
Haskell GHC #4 50.67 19,768 671 51.56
Haskell GHC #6 15.24 21,632 1123 59.78
Haskell GHC #2 46.08 25,600 815 139.01
Haskell GHC 281.08 19,644 567 287.17
Haskell GHC #3   Make Error  
n-body
source secs mem gz cpu secs
C gcc #9 2.10 19,520 1639 2.10
C gcc #8 3.70 19,520 1398 3.69
C gcc #4 4.30 19,520 1496 4.30
C gcc #6 4.96 19,520 1186 4.96
C gcc 5.18 19,520 1179 5.18
C gcc #2 5.18 19,520 1270 5.18
C gcc #3 5.24 19,520 1214 5.24
C gcc #5 5.41 19,648 1436 5.41
C gcc #7 6.81 19,520 1250 6.81
Haskell GHC #2 11.05 19,668 1888 11.20
Haskell GHC 14.80 19,796 1713 15.00
spectral-norm
source secs mem gz cpu secs
C gcc #6 0.41 19,760 1203 1.61
C gcc #5 0.72 19,520 576 2.84
C gcc #7 0.73 19,520 906 2.84
C gcc #4 0.72 19,520 1145 2.84
C gcc 5.39 19,520 390 5.39
C gcc #3 1.43 19,520 470 5.68
Haskell GHC #4 1.48 19,796 994 5.70
Haskell GHC #2 21.48 19,796 410 21.63
C gcc #8   Make Error  
mandelbrot
source secs mem gz cpu secs
C gcc #6 1.28 33,280 1141 5.11
C gcc #8 1.63 33,536 788 6.30
C gcc #4 3.48 33,152 805 13.85
C gcc 3.49 32,896 828 13.88
C gcc #7 3.49 33,152 1000 13.89
C gcc #3 3.54 32,768 769 14.07
C gcc #9 4.22 33,280 700 16.30
C gcc #2 24.97 19,520 412 24.97
Haskell GHC #2 12.34 45,184 789 49.13
Haskell GHC 52.21 260,352 628 53.00
Haskell GHC #3   Make Error  
pidigits
source secs mem gz cpu secs
C gcc #2 0.81 19,520 422 0.81
C gcc 0.88 19,520 459 0.88
Haskell GHC #6 1.59 19,668 368 1.65
Haskell GHC #4 1.80 19,796 355 1.87
Haskell GHC #3 2.17 19,796 387 2.25
Haskell GHC #2 2.19 19,796 592 2.26
Haskell GHC 2.22 19,796 466 2.29
Haskell GHC #5 119.18 19,668 934 119.32
regex-redux
source secs mem gz cpu secs
C gcc #5 0.80 152,388 1403 2.03
Haskell GHC #3 1.07 411,520 2219 2.28
C gcc #2 3.23 103,296 1121 3.23
C gcc #4 0.96 152,256 1237 3.27
C gcc #3 1.72 103,680 1273 3.29
fasta
source secs mem gz cpu secs
C gcc #9 0.78 19,520 1469 0.78
C gcc #5 1.24 19,520 1286 1.24
C gcc #6 0.93 19,648 1936 2.73
C gcc #8 2.79 19,520 1299 2.79
C gcc #4 3.02 19,520 1244 3.02
C gcc #2 0.83 19,520 2270 3.26
C gcc #7 0.85 19,648 2018 3.29
C gcc 3.74 19,520 1209 3.73
C gcc #3 4.49 19,520 825 4.48
Haskell GHC #4 1.89 41,216 2017 4.73
Haskell GHC #5 2.45 19,652 2004 6.27
Haskell GHC #6 2.35 19,648 1885 6.49
Haskell GHC 7.23 19,644 975 7.32
Haskell GHC #3 8.72 616,692 1091 8.84
Haskell GHC #2 6.27 438,784 1323 19.11
k-nucleotide
source secs mem gz cpu secs
C gcc 3.80 130,432 1512 12.64
Haskell GHC 22.83 659,584 1067 77.84
Haskell GHC #2 22.61 802,944 1492 87.50
Haskell GHC #3 37.00 413,952 2266 133.16
reverse-complement
source secs mem gz cpu secs
C gcc #7 0.43 499,872 1899 0.58
C gcc #8 0.50 499,872 1551 0.86
C gcc #6 0.96 703,064 828 1.37
C gcc #5 1.50 994,176 654 1.50
C gcc #2 1.05 994,432 757 1.55
C gcc #4 3.66 500,480 716 3.66
Haskell GHC #4 3.76 505,600 1047 3.82
Haskell GHC #2 6.81 3,812,096 998 6.90
binary-trees
source secs mem gz cpu secs
C gcc #2 1.51 169,088 816 4.17
C gcc #3 1.89 134,400 842 4.59
Haskell GHC #8 2.38 256,828 807 5.96
Haskell GHC #7 3.18 298,112 817 7.81
Haskell GHC #6 4.08 242,720 601 8.35
Haskell GHC 13.52 669,824 500 15.19
Haskell GHC #3 6.91 650,240 544 15.45
Haskell GHC #5 7.34 674,944 567 15.67
Haskell GHC #2 14.46 263,936 498 16.05
C gcc 20.83 264,192 660 20.83
C gcc #5 8.27 351,232 914 30.31
Haskell GHC

The Glorious Glasgow Haskell
Compilation System,
version 9.4.8
LLVM version 17.0.2

C gcc

13.2.0-4ubuntu3