Interpreted Languages Benchmark

Benchmark for interpreted languages.

The values for Rust, V, Swift, D and Haskell are not really representative as they are compiled on the first run and Haskell unfortunately does not even cache the compiled binary.

Languages

• Bash
• D
• Dart
• Dash
• Elixir
• Elvish
• Erlang
• F#
• Fish
• Forth
• Groovy
• Haskell
• Java
• J
• JavaScript via
  • Node.js
  • Deno
  • Bun
• Julia
• Ksh
• Lisp via
  • Guile
  • Emacs Lisp
• Lua
• Luau
• Nickel
• Nim
• Nix Language
• Nushell
• OCaml
• Osh
• Perl
• PHP
• TypeScript via
  • Node.js
  • Deno
  • Bun
• Prolog via
  • SWI-Prolog
  • GNU Prolog
• Python
• R
• Racket
• Roc.roc
• Ruby
• Scala
• Swift
• Typst
• Uiua
• V

Workarounds

• Typst
  Can only output a JSON string. Use … | jq -r to remove the quotes.

Result

Check out the workflow runs for the latest benchmark results.

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