Very simple and useless language Benchmarks 🚀

This project compares the performance of CPU intensive work in several languages I find interesting. It's designed to benchmark these languages using a common, computationally intensive task in a simple manner. The benchmark is not perfect, but might be realistically practical.

🧮 What it does

Each implementation finds the nth prime between 999'990 and 1'000'000.

🛠️ Languages and Tools

• Go
• C# AOT (.NET 9.0)
• C# (.NET 9.0)
• F# (.NET 9.0) (not currently included since C# already represents .NET and is faster)
• Rust (Nightly)
• Zig
• TypeScript (Bun)
• Clang++ and GCC (G++) for C++
• Swift
• Python 3
• Java (OpenJDK 23)
• Hyperfine (for benchmarking)

🚀 Getting Started

1. Ensure you have all the tools listed above installed on your system.
2. Clone this repository
3. Run the benchmark script chmod +x test.sh && ./test.sh

📊 Benchmark Results

Run the test.sh script to see the benchmark results for yourself on your machine.

My Results:

👑 Java is the fastest of the current implementations

On MacBook Pro M3 Pro 36GB RAM:

Summary
  java -jar java_bin.jar ran
    1.04 ± 0.02 times faster than ./rust_bin
    1.05 ± 0.02 times faster than ./zig_bin
    1.07 ± 0.02 times faster than ./go_bin
    1.08 ± 0.03 times faster than ./csharp_bin
    1.08 ± 0.02 times faster than ./cpp_bin_clang
    1.09 ± 0.03 times faster than ./cpp_bin_gcc
    1.14 ± 0.03 times faster than dotnet run --project ../csharp/csharp.csproj -c Release
    1.17 ± 0.03 times faster than ./ts_bin
    1.27 ± 0.02 times faster than ./swift_bin
    ~ 42.77 ± 1.35 times faster than python3 ../python/main.py (so slow I didn't include it in the latest test)

Disclaimer

This is a unrealistic benchmark and it's done very quickly in order to test languages.

📁 Project Structure

• go/: Go implementation
• csharp/: C# implementation
• fsharp/: F# implementation
• rust/matrix/: Rust implementation
• zig/: Zig implementation
• cpp/: C++ implementation
• ts/ TypeScript implementation compiled with Bun
• python/ Python implementation
• swift/ Python implementation
• java/ Java implementation
• test.sh: Benchmark script
• bin/: Binary files for each compiled implementation