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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.

OS: LinuxCPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 325Last Updated: 2026-10-14

Language	Time How long does it take to approximate PI? (lower is better)	Memory How much memory (RAM) does the program use? (lower is better)	Build Time Fetching dependencies + compiling, excluding SDK setup (lower is better)
Elixir v1.18	18.82 s	66.4 MB	1.23 s
Elixir v1.16	19.22 s	55.5 MB	1.21 s

Popular languages

How does Elixir compare to other languages?

Language	Time How long does it take to approximate PI? (lower is better, log scale)	Memory How much memory (RAM) does the program use? (lower is better)	Build Time Fetching dependencies + compiling, excluding SDK setup (lower is better)
C (GCC)	1.00 s	2.2 MB	2.13 s
Rust	1.00 s	2.9 MB	4.12 s
Java (Temurin)	1.00 s	65.9 MB	14.84 s
C# (.NET)	1.16 s	34.8 MB	4.49 s
Go	1.36 s	3.8 MB	6.18 s
JavaScript (Node.js)	3.24 s	66.4 MB	1.09 s
Elixir	18.82 s	66.4 MB	1.23 s
Ruby	67.47 s	17.8 MB	1.29 s
Python	99.28 s	11.1 MB	1.28 s