README.md

PQ-Bench

Background

This repository contains benchmarks for various priority queue implementations in Go, Rust, Zig, and C++. All tests are single threaded and designed to try and reproduce roughly the same workload across all implementations. While these benchmarks are not perfect, they should give a rough idea of the performance of each implementation and how they might work in a real-world scenario.

Sister Repositories

• fibheap (Fibonacci Heaps)
• gpq (Go Priority Queue)
• rpq (Rust Priority Queue)

Benchmarks

Language	Time Spent (seconds)
RPQ	1.38
RPQ (Batch)	0.98
RPQ (Batch Parallel)	0.62
GPQ	5.54
GPQ (Batch)	4.83
GPQ (Batch Parallel)	2.98
Zig (STD LIB)	0.87
Rust (STD LIB)	0.72
Go (STD LIB)	3.61
C++ (STD LIB)	4.24
Python (STD LIB)	15.03

Features

Feature	GPQ	RPQ	Go Heap	Zig Priority Queue	C++ Queue	Rust Binary Heap
Enqueue	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Dequeue	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Disk Cache	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Mutable Priority	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Timeouts	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌