spectral-norm First, here are half-a-dozen naive un-optimised single-thread #8 programs transliterated line-by-line literal style into different programming languages from the same original — source secs mem gz C gcc #8 5.41 3,219 389 Java #8 5.47 62,308 453 Node.js #8 6.53 66,380 355 PHP #8 135.79 16,601 357 Ruby #8 175.57 19,132 294 Python 3 #8 6 min 12,833 334 Here are the crowd sourced programs — × source secs mem gz cpu secs 1.0 Intel Fortran #2 2.67 2,331 520 2.67 1.1 Rust #4 0.72 4,047 823 2.85 1.1 Intel Fortran #3 0.72 5,214 644 2.85 1.1 Chapel #2 0.79 9,916 348 2.90 1.4 Julia #4 1.30 315,802 435 3.71 2.0 OCaml #2 5.34 6,074 383 5.33 2.0 C++g++ 5.34 5,292 459 5.34 2.0 C# naot #8 5.35 6,820 441 5.34 2.0 Dart aot 5.34 8,946 468 5.34 2.0 Ada 2012 GNAT 5.35 6,091 725 5.34 2.0 Java naot #8 5.35 20,886 453 5.34 2.0 Lisp SBCL #6 5.36 29,557 512 5.35 2.0 Swift #8 5.36 24,936 411 5.35 2.0 Java naot 5.36 25,215 521 5.35 2.0 Lisp SBCL 5.37 29,782 639 5.35 2.0 Go #8 5.34 3,838 429 5.35 2.0 Go 5.34 4,059 417 5.35 2.0 Node.js #7 5.40 65,417 420 5.40 2.0 C gcc #8 5.41 3,219 389 5.40 2.0 Node.js 5.41 66,429 326 5.41 2.1 C gcc #3 1.43 4,080 470 5.69 2.1 Go #4 1.43 4,174 555 5.69 2.1 Go #2 1.51 4,317 674 5.70 2.1 Swift #3 1.45 13,705 607 5.70 2.1 Java naot #2 1.47 26,616 956 5.71 2.1 Haskell GHC #4 1.50 10,088 994 5.71 2.1 Dart aot #6 1.47 18,973 1202 5.71 2.1 Free Pascal #3 1.46 3,879 656 5.72 2.1 Free Pascal #2 1.46 3,793 548 5.72 2.1 Lisp SBCL #3 1.47 29,598 893 5.72 2.1 Java naot #3 1.47 29,483 762 5.72 2.1 Lisp SBCL #7 1.47 29,258 769 5.72 2.1 Lisp SBCL #9 1.48 28,799 799 5.72 2.1 Lisp SBCL #2 1.48 29,274 920 5.72 2.1 C# naot #2 1.47 6,644 1084 5.72 2.1 Ada 2012 GNAT #3 1.49 8,475 1725 5.72 2.2 Julia #2 2.83 414,999 377 5.75 2.2 Chapel 1.50 10,109 322 5.77 2.2 C# naot #3 1.48 6,808 890 5.79 2.2 F# #2 1.59 44,683 864 5.83 2.2 F# #4 1.60 46,375 738 5.86 2.3 Node.js #6 1.61 114,618 1002 6.03 2.3 C++ g++ #7 1.53 4,071 1284 6.05 2.4 Node.js #8 6.53 66,380 355 6.53 4.1 Dart aot #8 10.88 9,560 422 10.87 4.4 Free Pascal 11.81 532 429 11.80 4.7 Dart aot #2 3.31 27,660 1173 12.62 11 Racket 29.73 129,208 452 29.68 16 Erlang #2 11.05 76,771 753 42.67 20 Pharo Smalltalk 53.39 142,340 683 53.68 24 Erlang 63.91 68,399 513 63.93 27 PHP 18.29 24,682 1157 72.34 30 Lua 78.75 3,686 335 78.73 36 Perl 96.09 10,101 340 96.05 36 Perl #5 96.18 10,162 346 96.15 37 Perl #4 24.85 14,885 562 98.03 47 Ruby #4 126.05 20,025 333 125.99 50 PHP #2 132.84 16,810 403 132.78 51 PHP #8 135.79 16,601 357 135.74 53 PHP #3 35.62 26,657 1214 141.20 66 Ruby #8 175.57 19,132 294 175.51 78 Ruby #5 56.52 43,725 764 207.29 131 Python 3 #6 5 min 13,660 334 5 min 132 Python 3 #4 90.37 34,693 415 5 min 144 Python 3 #8 6 min 12,833 334 6 min 158 Python 3 #7 109.91 34,578 425 7 min 192 Perl #2 8 min 9,581 350 8 min 194 Perl #3 130.52 14,729 857 8 min C gcc #2 Empty Rust #7 Empty * possible hand-written vector instructions or "unsafe" × source secs mem gz cpu secs 0.6 * C gcc #6 0.40 3,199 1203 1.59 1.1 * C gcc #5 0.72 3,858 576 2.85 1.1 * Rust #6 0.72 3,981 1132 2.85 1.1 * C gcc #7 0.72 4,067 906 2.85 1.1 * Rust #5 0.72 4,018 1062 2.85 1.1 * C gcc #4 0.72 3,719 1145 2.86 1.1 * Rust 0.72 4,104 1262 2.86 1.1 * Rust #2 0.72 4,145 1117 2.86 1.1 * C++ g++ #6 0.72 3,981 1050 2.86 1.1 * C# naot #5 0.74 8,057 776 2.88 1.1 * Rust #3 0.74 4,121 1060 2.93 1.1 * Ada 2012 GNAT #4 0.77 8,569 2777 2.98 1.2 * F# #6 0.95 47,010 697 3.31 2.0 * C++ g++ #5 1.33 5,820 1050 5.27 5.6 * Racket #3 3.97 128,840 639 14.86 5.7 * Racket #2 15.19 126,857 539 15.14 5.9 * Haskell GHC #2 15.62 12,702 410 15.72 by secs by mem by gz by cpu secs