LangArena Benchmark Results
Latest benchmark date: 2026-01-22
Architecture: x86_64-linux-gnu
Benchmark summary: Comparison of 10 programming languages across 40 performance tests.
Top Performers:
- C/Clang - Best overall performance (42.47s total runtime)
- Rust - Second best (44.53s total runtime)
- C++/Clang++ - Third best (47.0s total runtime)
- Crystal - Most expressive code (+43.7% better than average)
- Go - Fastest compile time (0.965s)
Tested Languages:
C, C++, Rust, Go, Crystal, C#, Swift, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript
Benchmark Categories:
- Runtime Performance (40 tests including Pidigits, Binarytrees, GameOfLife, etc.)
- Memory Usage
- Compile Time & Binary Size
- Code Expressiveness (lines of code, boilerplate)
- Hacked configurations with optimization flags
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