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Kotlin Computation Benchmark

About Kotlin

Paradigm

Object-Oriented, Functional, Imperative

Execution

JIT, AOT

Typing

Static

Null Safety

YES

Memory Management

Garbage Collection

Kotlin is a modern programming language developed by JetBrains and officially supported by Google for Android development. It is fully interoperable with Java while addressing many of its limitations through features like null safety and extension functions. Kotlin has rapidly gained popularity for mobile development and is growing in server-side applications.

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: 2026-10-05

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)
Kotlin (Native v2.4.20)	1.02 s	2.3 MB	56.06 s

Popular languages

How does Kotlin 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)
Rust	1.00 s	852.0 KB	3.02 s
C (GCC)	1.00 s	440.0 KB	3.26 s
Kotlin (Native)	1.02 s	2.3 MB	56.06 s
C# (.NET)	1.16 s	5.6 MB	3.67 s
Java (Temurin)	1.35 s	21.9 MB	15.21 s
Go	1.37 s	1.4 MB	5.42 s
JavaScript (Node.js)	3.23 s	14.6 MB	0.89 s
Ruby	67.88 s	7.5 MB	1.15 s
Python	99.40 s	4.0 MB	1.26 s