Sharkbench

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Go Computation Benchmark

About Go

Paradigm

Concurrent, Imperative, Procedural

Execution

Compiled

Typing

Static

Null Safety

NO

Memory Management

Garbage Collection

Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google that is syntactically similar to C but with memory safety and garbage collection. It is designed to be simple, efficient, and readable with a focus on concurrent programming. Go is widely used for building network servers, data pipelines, and command-line tools.

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)
Go v1.24	1.36 s	3.8 MB	6.18 s
Go v1.20	1.38 s	2.8 MB	5.97 s
Go v1.16	1.39 s	3.4 MB	3.14 s
Go v1.12	1.44 s	2.7 MB	3.00 s
Go v1.8	1.59 s	2.2 MB	3.16 s

Popular languages

How does Go 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
Ruby	67.47 s	17.8 MB	1.29 s
Python	99.28 s	11.1 MB	1.28 s