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Zig Computation Benchmark

About Zig

Paradigm

Imperative, Procedural

Execution

Compiled

Typing

Static

Null Safety

YES

Memory Management

Manual

Zig is a modern systems programming language designed to be robust, optimal, and maintainable, created by Andrew Kelley in 2016. It prioritizes simplicity and debuggability while offering powerful compile-time code execution and C interoperability. Zig aims to replace C with better tooling while maintaining performance suitable for low-level systems programming.

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)
Zig v0.16.0	1.00 s	1.1 MB	22.49 s

Popular languages

How does Zig 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
Zig	1.00 s	1.1 MB	22.49 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