Yes, as far as I can tell [1]. It's a simple Tape algorithm. Neither had any crazy SIMD, threads, no custom containers, etc. They use almost the same function names (and look the same as the Go version too). I used `time -l` https://stackoverflow.com/a/30124747 for memory usage.
Note I ran the benchmarks locally (MacBook Air M1) because the reported benchmark uses the older (default) Nim GC while I only use Nim+ARC. I also had to fix the Zig code and it took a few tries to get the signed/unsigned int conversions working. I tried tweaking flags for both a bit as well to see how stable they were. Zig's memory usage was pretty constant. Nim had a small speed vs memory tradeoff that could be tweak-able, but the defaults used the least memory.
Overall I'd expect exact memory usage by language(s) to vary some by benchmark and one random benchmark isn't conclusive. Still I didn't find anything to indicate Zig is clearly better than other new generation languages. Manual memory management might actually be worse than letting a compiler manage it in some cases.
Note I ran the benchmarks locally (MacBook Air M1) because the reported benchmark uses the older (default) Nim GC while I only use Nim+ARC. I also had to fix the Zig code and it took a few tries to get the signed/unsigned int conversions working. I tried tweaking flags for both a bit as well to see how stable they were. Zig's memory usage was pretty constant. Nim had a small speed vs memory tradeoff that could be tweak-able, but the defaults used the least memory.
Overall I'd expect exact memory usage by language(s) to vary some by benchmark and one random benchmark isn't conclusive. Still I didn't find anything to indicate Zig is clearly better than other new generation languages. Manual memory management might actually be worse than letting a compiler manage it in some cases.
1: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/tree/master/brainfuck