numbl benchmarks

Generated: 2026-04-01T09:02:11-04:00

Benchmark	MATLAB	Octave	Numbl CLI	Numbl CLI (native)	Numbl Browser
matmul	0.0189s	0.0151s	1.2404s	0.0421s	1.4302s
linsolve	0.0035s	0.0023s	0.0692s	0.0025s	0.0806s
eig	0.0076s	0.0097s	0.4991s	0.0664s	0.5637s
fft	0.0057s	0.0067s	1.1898s	0.0282s	1.2008s
vectorized	0.0253s	0.0521s	0.1250s	0.1126s	0.1207s
scalar_loop	0.0057s	4.6754s	0.0098s	0.0102s	0.0396s
mandelbrot	0.0508s	11.6502s	1.5095s	1.4527s	1.3130s

Relative slowdown

Benchmark	MATLAB	Octave	Numbl CLI	Numbl CLI (native)	Numbl Browser
matmul	1.3x	1.0x	82.1x	2.8x	94.7x
linsolve	1.5x	1.0x	30.1x	1.1x	35.0x
eig	1.0x	1.3x	65.7x	8.7x	74.2x
fft	1.0x	1.2x	208.7x	4.9x	210.7x
vectorized	1.0x	2.1x	4.9x	4.5x	4.8x
scalar_loop	1.0x	820.2x	1.7x	1.8x	6.9x
mandelbrot	1.0x	229.3x	29.7x	28.6x	25.8x

Relative slowdown (bar chart)

MATLAB Octave Numbl CLI Numbl CLI (native) Numbl Browser

matmul

1.3x

1.0x

82.1x

2.8x

94.7x

linsolve

1.5x

1.0x

30.1x

1.1x

35.0x

eig

1.0x

1.3x

65.7x

8.7x

74.2x

fft

1.0x

1.2x

208.7x

4.9x

210.7x

vectorized

1.0x

2.1x

4.9x

4.5x

4.8x

scalar_loop

1.0x

820.2x

1.7x

1.8x

6.9x

mandelbrot

1.0x

229.3x

29.7x

28.6x

25.8x

System info

CPU	13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1355U
Cores	12
Memory	39Gi
OS	Linux 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64
Arch	x86_64
Node.js	v24.14.1
MATLAB	25.2.0.3177638(R2025b)Update5
Octave	9.4.0
Browser	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Platform	Linux x86_64