Sharkbench

Benchmarking programming languages and web frameworks

Swift Computation Benchmark

About Swift

Paradigm

Object-Oriented, Functional

Execution

Compiled

Typing

Static

Null Safety

YES

Memory Management

Automatic Reference Counting

Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language developed by Apple for their ecosystem. It features safety mechanisms including optionals for handling nil values and automatic memory management through Automatic Reference Counting. Swift's concise syntax and modern features make it ideal for developing applications across Apple platforms.

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)
Swift v5.10	1.02 s	10.8 MB	5.16 s

Popular languages

How does Swift 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
Swift	1.02 s	10.8 MB	5.16 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