Chapel Language Blog

Tagged "Performance"

Articles that measure Chapel performance, or are about obtaining performance in Chapel

• Reflections on 30 Years of HPC Programming:
  So many hardware advances, so little adoption of new languages

  Posted on April 9, 2026

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  This summary of Brad’s HIPS 2025 keynote looks at how HPC programming has (and has not) changed over the past 30 years

• Transformers From Scratch in Chapel and C++, Part 2

  Posted on December 12, 2025

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  Comparison of transformers in Chapel, C++, and PyTorch focusing on multi-threaded CPUs

• Transformers From Scratch in Chapel and C++, Part 1

  Posted on November 20, 2025

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  An implementation of a transformer using Chapel, comparing to C++ and PyTorch

• 10 Myths About Scalable Parallel Programming Languages (Redux)
  Part 6: Performance of Higher-Level Languages

  Posted on September 17, 2025

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  The sixth archival post from the 2012 IEEE TCSC blog series, with a current reflection on it

• Announcing Chapel 2.5!

  Posted on June 12, 2025

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  Highlights from the June 2025 release of Chapel 2.5

• Chapel/Fortran Interop in an Ocean Model: Introduction

  Posted on April 24, 2025

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  An introduction to interoperating between Chapel and Fortran

• Announcing Chapel 2.3!

  Posted on December 12, 2024

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  Highlights from the December 2024 release of Chapel 2.3

• Announcing Chapel 2.2!

  Posted on September 26, 2024

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  A summary of highlights from the September 2024 release of Chapel 2.2

• Parallel Processing of a Billion Rows of Data in Chapel

  Posted on July 12, 2024

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  A Chapel Implementation of the One Billion Row Challenge

• Chapel 2.0: Scalable and Productive Computing for All

  Posted on March 21, 2024

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  This post announces Chapel 2.0, including a brief tour of what the language is capable of.

• Comparing Standard Library Sorts: The Impact of Parallelism

  Posted on January 30, 2024

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  This blog post compares the performance of standard library sort routines in several programming languages.

• Announcing Chapel 1.33!

  Posted on December 14, 2023

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  A summary of highlights from the December 2023 release of Chapel 1.33.0

• Announcing Chapel 1.32!

  Posted on September 28, 2023

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  A summary of highlights from the September 2023 release of Chapel 1.32.0