Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Acton VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu May 01 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
go 1.go 1220ms 11ms 55.0MB 1197ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2348ms 15ms 40.2MB 5240ms 33ms go 1.24.2
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 66.9MB 5943ms 87ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 113ms 1.8ms 5.6MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 208ms 0.9ms 8.1MB 367ms 7ms go 1.24.2
acton 1.act 824ms 27ms 12.0MB 960ms 70ms actonc 0.25.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 117ms 2.3ms 8.6MB 110ms 0ms go 1.24.2
acton 1.act 231ms 12ms 8.1MB 207ms 40ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 35ms 0.5ms 8.2MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.2
acton 1.act 90ms 15ms 6.0MB 73ms 13ms actonc 0.25.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.9ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.2
acton 1.act 3.8ms 0.3ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.25.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 812ms 48ms 63.2MB 790ms 7ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 1106ms 0.8ms 55.0MB 1090ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 1446ms 5.8ms 41.0MB 3067ms 37ms go 1.24.2
go 2-m.go 1649ms 1.9ms 42.9MB 3640ms 33ms go 1.24.2
acton 1.act 3256ms 12ms 84.6MB 3660ms 60ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 174ms 1.1ms 9.8MB 160ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 205ms 4.5ms 17.1MB 187ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 329ms 1.3ms 12.2MB 667ms 23ms go 1.24.2
go 2-m.go 373ms 3.4ms 13.8MB 783ms 27ms go 1.24.2
acton 1.act 693ms 11ms 24.0MB 760ms 33ms actonc 0.25.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 288ms 12ms 39.8MB 273ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 321ms 6.3ms 71.7MB 307ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 2.go 427ms 4.0ms 21.6MB 413ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 788ms 2.5ms 21.6MB 777ms 7ms go 1.24.2
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 561.0MB 6610ms 93ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 57ms 1.6ms 10.5MB 47ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 67ms 0.4ms 21.6MB 60ms 0ms go 1.24.2
go 2.go 109ms 0.7ms 4.9MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 197ms 3.1ms 6.1MB 183ms 0ms go 1.24.2
acton 1.act 2441ms 6.0ms 192.4MB 2940ms 60ms actonc 0.25.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 1118ms 6.9ms 8.7MB 1103ms 3ms go 1.24.2
acton 1-m.act 3448ms 37ms 6.8MB 3523ms 2430ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 271ms 2.4ms 8.6MB 260ms 0ms go 1.24.2
acton 1-m.act 960ms 34ms 6.1MB 940ms 687ms actonc 0.25.0