PTA app benchmarks

[Simon Michael]

While updating the hledger performance page, I did some testing of other apps. I think this is the first detailed multi-PTA-app performance test. Check out the results, and see if you can reproduce them!

TLDR

• hledger 1, Beancount 2, Beancount 3 are similar in speed
• hledger main and Tackler are faster, and similar except Tackler is ...
• Ledger 3.4.1 is faster but ...
• rustledger is much ...

🏎️ ⚡️ https://hledger.org/PERFORMANCE.html#other-apps ⚡️🚀

[Simon Michael]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2026, at 22:05, 'Simon Michael' via hledger wrote:

While updating the hledger performance page, I did some testing of other apps. I think this is the first detailed multi-PTA-app performance test. Check out the results, and see if you can reproduce them!

🏎️ ⚡️ https://hledger.org/PERFORMANCE.html#other-apps ⚡️🚀

Updates:

- changed Ledger's and Tackler's balance reports to flat mode, like the other apps.

- filled in some missing results

- ranked by speed. (Who's at the top now ?)

[Simon Michael]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2026, at 00:40, 'Simon Michael' via hledger wrote:

On Sat, Sep 26, 2026, at 22:05, 'Simon Michael' via hledger wrote:

While updating the hledger performance page, I did some testing of other apps. I think this is the first detailed multi-PTA-app performance test. Check out the results, and see if you can reproduce them!

Now with https://hledger.org/PERFORMANCE.html#charts !

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "'MvL" == 'Simon Michael' via Ledger <ledge...@googlegroups.com> writes:

> While updating the hledger performance page, I did some testing of other
> apps. I think this is the first detailed multi-PTA-app performance test.
> Check out the results, and see if you can reproduce them!

Thanks for this report and a benchmark to compare against. I’ll get C++Ledger
fixed soon.

John

[Chunhui Ouyang]

In theory, C/C++ offers the best performance; why is that the case?

[Chunhui Ouyang]

In theory, C/C++ offers the best performance; why is that the case?

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