Acton VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Jun 23 2025, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][4 cores] AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor (Model 1)

* -m in a file name stands for multi-threading or multi-processing

* -i in a file name stands for direct intrinsics usage. (Usage of simd intrinsics via libraries is not counted)

* -ffi in a file name stands for non-stdlib FFI usage

* (You may find time < time(user) + time(sys) for some non-parallelized programs, the overhead is from GC or JIT compiler, which are allowed to take advantage of multi-cores as that's more close to real-world scenarios.)

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 1914ms 16ms 35.7MB 1893ms 10ms wasmtime 34.0.0
wasm 4.rs 1932ms 53ms 33.7MB 1910ms 10ms wasmtime 34.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1979ms 111ms 50.0MB 1950ms 20ms wasmtime 34.0.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 5897ms 97ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 172ms 1.4ms 19.8MB 157ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
wasm 4.rs 174ms 2.0ms 19.8MB 163ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
wasm 3.rs 181ms 4.1ms 21.7MB 163ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
acton 1.act 931ms 26ms 12.0MB 1060ms 73ms actonc 0.26.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 230ms 8.9ms 7.9MB 213ms 30ms actonc 0.26.0
wasm 1.rs 418ms 0.4ms 19.3MB 403ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 77ms 6.0ms 6.0MB 63ms 13ms actonc 0.26.0
wasm 1.rs 116ms 0.9ms 18.8MB 103ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.7ms 0.2ms 4.1MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.26.0
wasm 1.rs 7.1ms 0.1ms 16.7MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 903ms 21ms 41.8MB 877ms 10ms wasmtime 34.0.0
acton 1.act 3685ms 246ms 84.6MB 4110ms 77ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 196ms 4.9ms 23.8MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
acton 1.act 755ms 11ms 23.9MB 830ms 40ms actonc 0.26.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 381ms 1.9ms 22.9MB 367ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
wasm 1.rs 613ms 42ms 56.9MB 597ms 10ms wasmtime 34.0.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 561.0MB 6610ms 77ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 95ms 0.7ms 27.6MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
wasm 2.rs 98ms 1.0ms 20.9MB 87ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
acton 1.act 2558ms 15ms 192.4MB 3067ms 57ms actonc 0.26.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 2220ms 15ms 18.7MB 2203ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
acton 1-m.act 3432ms 124ms 6.9MB 3533ms 2347ms actonc 0.26.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 523ms 2.7ms 18.4MB 510ms 0ms wasmtime 34.0.0
acton 1-m.act 993ms 33ms 6.0MB 937ms 727ms actonc 0.26.0