Benchmark Games for Gerbil, Racket, Go, and C (GCC)

I run the tests with Gerbil, and compared with Racket, Go, and C. The Gerbil programs are new, for the others I used the existing (expertly written and heavily optimized) programs from the 23.03 Benchmarks Game, but see notes below.

Versions used: Gerbil v0.18, Racket v8.10, Go 1.21.2, and GCC 11.4

The source code for the benchmark game is here.

The benchmarks were run on a Dell XPS 13-9320 laptop.

Each benchmark was run 3 times, and I kept the best value.

Note C programs were compiled with gcc -O2.

Note The benchmark all utilize a single core. I want to compare apples to apples, not how well a given language can multicore. Gerbil is also multicore capable, but the SMP backend is not stable yet; when it is, it will be time for Gerbil v1.0.
For C, I kept the fastest non-parallel programs that don't utilize architecture specific extensions, as these are not generally portable and don't even compile on my laptop. I want reproducible benchmarks, not something bogus that relies on a specific Intel chip. That means that there may exist faster C programs out there, but they may or may not compile and run on any given machine, so I opted to stay portable.

NoteThis is not a d*ck swinging contest. I compiled these results to see how far I can push Gerbil's performance envelope and evaluate progress as the macrology/compiler improves. Take them with a grain of salt.

Results