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The code performs a recursive fibonacci to the 46th position with the result of 2,971,215,073. This is the original version where the sequence starts at 1 instead of 0. 1,1,2,3,5,8...
Fibonacci can be written many different ways. The goal of this project is to compare how each language handles the exact same code.
Here is the Ruby version:
def fib(n)
return 1 if n <= 1
fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
end
puts fib(46)
Here is the Crystal version:
def fib(n : UInt64)
return 1_u64 if n <= 1
fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
end
puts fib(46)
All tests are run on:
- AWS EC2 - m5.large 2 vCPU
- Processor: Intel Xeon 3.1Ghz
- Memory: 8 GiB
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04
- Docker Base Image: ubuntu:20.04
You can run the tests using Docker: docker run -it drujensen/fib
By default, it will compile and run all languages 5 times. Totals are calculated by adding the average compile and run times.
To only run a subset of the languages, provide a list of extensions and optionally the count
docker run -it drujensen/fib ./run.sh cr,kt,pypy,rbjit 5
Last benchmark was ran on April 18, 2021
| Language | Total | Compile | Time, s | Run | Time, s | Ext |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | 5.842 | gcc -fno-inline-small-functions -O3 -o fib fib.c | 0.078 | ./fib | 5.765 | c |
| Fortran | 5.866 | gfortran -fno-inline-small-functions -O3 -o fib fib.f03 | 0.104 | ./fib | 5.762 | f03 |
| C++ | 5.872 | g++ -fno-inline-small-functions -O3 -o fib fib.cpp | 0.106 | ./fib | 5.766 | cpp |
| D | 6.047 | ldc2 -O3 -release -flto=full -of=fib fib.d | 0.442 | ./fib | 5.604 | d |
| Assembly | 6.151 | gcc -no-pie -o fib fib.s | 0.022 | ./fib | 6.129 | s |
| Pony | 6.484 | ponyc -s -b fib -p ./fib.pony | 0.907 | ./fib | 5.577 | pony |
| Rust | 6.555 | rustc -C opt-level=3 fib.rs | 0.380 | ./fib | 6.175 | rs |
| Nim | 6.696 | nim c -d:danger --passC:-fno-inline-small-functions fib.nim | 0.531 | ./fib | 6.165 | nim |
| Ada | 7.047 | gnat make -O2 -gnatp -o fib fib.adb | 0.195 | ./fib | 6.852 | adb |
| Cython | 7.116 | cython -3 --embed -o fib.pyx.c fib.pyx && gcc -fno-inline-small-functions -O3 -o fib fib.pyx.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs python) | 0.240 | ./fib | 6.877 | pyx |
| Swift | 7.283 | swiftc -O -g fib.swift | 0.194 | ./fib | 7.089 | swift |
| V | 7.605 | v -cflags -fno-inline-small-functions -prod -o fib fib.v | 2.076 | ./fib | 5.528 | v |
| Pascal | 8.084 | fpc -O3 -Si ./fib.pas | 0.066 | ./fib | 8.018 | pas |
| Crystal | 9.226 | crystal build --release fib.cr | 3.374 | ./fib | 5.852 | cr |
| OCaml | 9.746 | ocamlopt -O3 -o fib fib.ml | 0.079 | ./fib | 9.667 | ml |
| Go | 12.462 | go build fib.go | 0.527 | ./fib | 11.935 | go |
| Haskell | 12.732 | rm ./fib.o && ghc -O3 -o fib fib.hs | 0.002 | ./fib | 12.730 | hs |
| Lisp | 16.923 | sbcl --load fib.lisp | 1.818 | ./fib | 15.106 | lisp |
| Cobol | 4461.371 | cobc -x -O3 -o fib ./fib.cbl | 0.123 | ./fib | 4461.248 | cbl |
NOTE: DSB Boundary 64 byte alignment may affect results. See issue #129 for details.
| Language | Total | Compile | Time, s | Run | Time, s | Ext |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java | 9.880 | javac Fib.java | 0.907 | java Fib | 8.972 | java |
| Scala | 10.060 | scalac Fib.scala | 1.661 | scala Fib | 8.399 | scala |
| Kotlin | 12.127 | kotlinc Fib.kt -include-runtime -d Fib.jar | 4.357 | java -jar Fib.jar | 7.771 | kt |
| C# | 14.350 | dotnet build -c Release -o ./bin | 2.018 | dotnet ./bin/fib.dll | 12.333 | cs |
| C# (Mono) | 15.860 | mcs Fib.cs | 0.438 | mono Fib.exe | 15.422 | mono |
| Erlang | 16.167 | erlc +native +'{hipe,[o3]}' fib.erl | 0.537 | erl -noinput -noshell -s fib | 15.630 | erl |
| Language | Time, s | Run | Ext |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dart | 10.819 | dart fib.dart | dart |
| Julia | 10.949 | julia -O3 fib.jl | jl |
| Escript | 14.810 | escript fib.es | es |
| Lua Jit | 15.896 | luajit fib.lua | luajit |
| Elixir | 16.242 | ERL_COMPILER_OPTIONS='[native,{hipe, [o3]}]' elixir Fib.exs | exs |
| Node | 24.434 | node fib.js | js |
| Clojure | 26.591 | clojure -M fib.cljc | cljc |
| Python3 (PyPy) | 52.748 | pypy3 fib.py | pypy |
| Ruby (jit) | 60.363 | ruby --jit fib.rb | rbjit |
| Language | Time, s | Run | Ext |
|---|---|---|---|
| Php | 112.758 | php fib.php | php |
| Scheme | 179.906 | guile fib.scm | scm |
| Ruby | 179.997 | ruby fib.rb | rb |
| Lua | 249.807 | lua fib.lua | lua |
| Janet | 280.298 | janet ./fib.janet | janet |
| Python | 485.371 | python fib.py | py |
| Python3 | 500.889 | python3 fib.py | py3 |
| Perl | 1043.080 | perl fib.pl | pl |
| Tcl | 1528.249 | tclsh fib.tcl | tcl |
| R | 2025.003 | R -f fib.r | r |
| Perl 6 | 2957.837 | perl6 fib.p6 | p6 |
| Bash | DNF | bash fib.sh | sh |
| Powershell | DNF | pwsh fib.ps1 | ps1 |
All compilers are installed using apt or asdf on Ubuntu 20.04 docker image:
assembly (gcc) 7.4.0 bash 5.0.0 crystal 1.0.0 clojure 1.10.2.774 cython 0.29.15 D (ldc2) v1.20.1 dart 2.9.3 dmd 1.20.1 dotnet-core 3.1.403 elixir 1.11.2 elm 0.19.1 erlang 23.1.2 g++ 7.4.0 gcc 7.4.0 gfortran 9.3.0 golang 1.14.1 guile 3.0.4 haskell 8.10.1 java openjdk-16 julia 1.5.0 K 3.6 kotlin 1.3.70 lisp (sbcl) 2.0.3 lua 5.3.0 luaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 mono 6.8.0 nim 1.4.2 nodejs 12.16.1 ocaml 4.11.1 pascal 3.0.4 perl 5.30.2 php 7.4.4 ponyc 0.38.1 powershell v7.0.0 python 3.8.2 R 3.6.3 rakudo 2020.01 ruby 3.0.1 rust 1.42.0 scala 2.13.5 scheme (guile) 2.2 swift 5.3.3 tcl 8.6.10 v 0.2.2