Programming-Language-Benchmarks VS Programming-Language-Benchmark

The benchmark available at https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/ demonstrates that Golang stands out as one of the most memory-efficient languages presently available. This achievement is attributable to several inherent features of Golang, such as its static typing, robust garbage collection system, and the inherent structuring of data within the language. These traits collectively contribute to Golang's exceptional efficiency in terms of minimal memory consumption compared to other languages.

I found Zig implementation of json parsing is interesting. The code is free from hidden control flow !.

https://github.com/hanabi1224/Programming-Language-Benchmark...

I think https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/ is a good starting point to compare languages and compilers, also implementations are optimized for the specific language so you don't end up with a poorly ported c++ implementation in rust and wonder why it performs so bad.

It varies a lot depending on what the code consists of, but if you want concrete numbers for certain benchmarks, this site might be of interest: https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/

There is not "one real" benchmark. In the end, all you can do is test languages for a specific feature / purpose. You can see how many different suggestions people have here, and here (I think) you can see the difficulties of comparing languages. That site uses quite a lot of algorithms / problems with multiple inputs, single and multithreaded, with different optimization flags (where applicable) and so on paired with different languages, and it's a mess. Sometimes one language is on top, sometimes another. (I mean, python will very rarely beat pure C, but I wont rule out that someone already created an edge case just to refute exactly this point)

Hello, World!: Elixir vs. Go vs. Rust

I found Zig implementation of json parsing is interesting. The code is free from hidden control flow !.

https://github.com/hanabi1224/Programming-Language-Benchmark...

It appears helloworld is the only test with any repeats, and it only has 5 repeats. https://github.com/hanabi1224/Programming-Language-Benchmark...

Here's the measurement code, it appears to be significantly more complicated than a simple fork/exec/wait loop but that could just be all the C# getting in the way: https://github.com/hanabi1224/Programming-Language-Benchmark... Nevertheless you are probably right that the bulk of this 1.8ms is in the executable under test, and it truly is just bloat. Running `hyperfine ./empty-main-function` from rustc on my Mac gives 0.8ms.

Is faster... on code that has been optimized to hell and back 5 times over and no longer resembles anything like normal code written in the language.

Seriously, this is the code for the top program. I'm reasonably sure 99% of C++ programmers could not decipher it without spending significant amounts of time on google: https://github.com/hanabi1224/Programming-Language-Benchmark...

I appreciate that fair benchmarks across languages are a hard problem, but this is not a good solution to it. Any reference to this data as a comparison between "programming languages and compilers" needs to come with a giant disclaimer that it's comparing them at something you almost certainly don't use them for, and is very far from their main use case.

I also appreciate that this is a repetitive comment the likes of which always come up when this benchmark is mentioned... but I really don't see another way to avoid people misinterpreting it. Very few people are going to spontaneously click through to the code.