Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

Elixir Computation Benchmark

About Elixir

Paradigm

Functional, Concurrent

Execution

Interpreted

Typing

Dynamic

Null Safety

YES

Memory Management

Garbage Collection

Elixir is a functional, concurrent programming language built on the Erlang VM created by José Valim in 2011. It combines Erlang's fault-tolerance and distributed capabilities with a Ruby-inspired syntax. Elixir features immutable data structures and actor-based concurrency through lightweight processes.

Benchmarks

This benchmark tests how fast a programming language can perform mathematical computations without any I/O or memory allocation. We are using the Leibniz formula to approximate the value of PI.
Please note that the memory usage also includes the memory used by the HTTP server. Ideally, the most lightweight HTTP server should be used to measure the raw memory usage of the runtime.

OS: Linux/DockerCPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3DLast Updated: 2025-05-04

Language	Time (lower is better)	Memory (lower is better)
Elixir v1.18	32.56 s	70.2 MB
Elixir v1.16	32.95 s	58.2 MB

Popular languages

How does Elixir compare to other languages?

Language	Time (lower is better, custom scale)	Memory (lower is better)
Java (Temurin)	1.00 s	22.9 MB
Rust	1.02 s	584.0 KB
Go	1.13 s	2.1 MB
C (GCC)	1.39 s	448.0 KB
C# (.NET)	1.41 s	9.7 MB
JavaScript (Node.js)	3.27 s	13.4 MB
Elixir	32.56 s	70.2 MB
Ruby	83.69 s	6.8 MB
Python	127.69 s	16.5 MB