shimbaaa/shimbabomb-benchmark

ShimbaBomb Interpreter Extreme Stress Benchmark

Overview

Benchmark results from extreme stress testing of the ShimbaBomb (SB) v1.11.0 interpreter — an English-like scripting language that compiles to native C.

The benchmark suite spawns CPU_Logical_Cores * 2 (or higher) threads to saturate the interpreter engine, running diverse SB scripts simultaneously for 30-second sustained windows per phase.

System

Parameter	Value
Platform	Windows x64
Logical CPUs	12
Compiler	GCC 15.2.0 (MSYS2 UCRT64)
Optimization	-O2 -march=x86-64 -mtune=native
Build Flags	SB_NO_GUI, SB_NO_CURL

Phases

Phase	Name	Threads	Duration	Description
1	mixed_workload	24	30s	14 diverse scripts (fib, loops, strings, arrays, maps, conditionals, arithmetic, function calls)
2	fib_saturation	48	30s	CPU*4 threads running fibonacci O(2^N) recursion
3	loop_throughput	24	30s	count/while loops with 500-10000 iterations
4	string_mem_stress	24	30s	String concat, array ops, map lookups — memory-intensive
5	heavy_payload	24	30s	Dynamically generated 5K-operation scripts — worst-case O(N) parsing
6	max_threads	96	30s	CPU*8 extreme concurrency across all 14 scripts

Key Results

Metric	Value
Grand Total Operations	1,611,421
Overall Throughput	8,830.3 ops/sec
Peak Memory	3,328 MB
CPU Utilization	100% (all phases)
Crashes	0 (zero fatal crashes)
Total Runtime	182.49 seconds

Latency Summary

Benchmark	Min (ms)	Mean (ms)	P50 (ms)	P95 (ms)	P99 (ms)	Max (ms)
mixed_workload	0.017	10.146	0.258	64.630	70.803	94.319
fib_saturation	2.728	77.162	108.523	155.883	168.020	206.087
loop_throughput	0.034	13.105	4.042	45.446	49.863	68.848
string_mem_stress	0.015	1.010	0.230	2.428	8.999	1,775.972
heavy_payload	0.015	0.946	0.052	2.712	5.151	3,125.817
max_threads	0.019	41.688	0.304	264.070	289.198	342.049

Throughput by Phase

Benchmark	Ops/sec	Error Rate
heavy_payload	24,357.5	0.00%
string_mem_stress	22,091.3	50.08%
mixed_workload	2,317.0	20.68%
max_threads	2,221.0	19.33%
loop_throughput	1,824.6	0.00%
fib_saturation	619.4	0.00%

Files

• hard_stress_benchmark.c — C source for the benchmark runner
• benchmark_results.json — Full JSON report
• hf_dataset.jsonl — HuggingFace-compatible JSONL dataset

How to Reproduce

# Build SB interpreter (Windows/MSYS2)
cd shimbabomb
gcc -std=c11 -O2 -DSB_NO_GUI -DSB_NO_CURL -DSB_STD_DIR="std" -DSB_SRC_DIR="std" \
    -o build/sb.exe src/*.c -lm -lws2_32

# Build benchmark
cd benchmark
gcc -std=c11 -O2 -I../src -DSB_NO_GUI -DSB_NO_CURL \
    -DSB_STD_DIR="<path>/std" -DSB_SRC_DIR="<path>/std" \
    -o hard_stress_benchmark.exe hard_stress_benchmark.c ../src/*.c -lm -lws2_32 -lpsapi

# Run
./hard_stress_benchmark.exe

Citation

@misc{shimbabomb_benchmark_2026,
  title={ShimbaBomb Interpreter Extreme Stress Benchmark},
  author={Shimba-crypto},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={\\url{https://github.com/Shimba-crypto/shimbabomb}}
}