Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Acton VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon May 19 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 1249ms 9.0ms 55.0MB 1227ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2386ms 8.7ms 41.6MB 5307ms 40ms go 1.24.3
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 5913ms 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 1.7ms 5.6MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 210ms 2.2ms 8.1MB 370ms 10ms go 1.24.3
acton 1.act 866ms 49ms 12.1MB 997ms 63ms actonc 0.25.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 118ms 0.8ms 10.2MB 110ms 0ms go 1.24.3
acton 1.act 226ms 10.0ms 8.0MB 207ms 30ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 35ms 1.6ms 8.2MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.3
acton 1.act 82ms 15ms 5.8MB 63ms 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 0.8ms 0.0ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.4ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.3
acton 1.act 3.8ms 0.2ms 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 820ms 45ms 63.1MB 800ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 1144ms 3.1ms 55.0MB 1120ms 3ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 1485ms 22ms 40.9MB 3127ms 40ms go 1.24.3
go 2-m.go 1732ms 20ms 47.1MB 3760ms 50ms go 1.24.3
acton 1.act 3359ms 11ms 84.5MB 3770ms 57ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 174ms 2.9ms 9.8MB 160ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 213ms 5.6ms 17.2MB 197ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 334ms 1.2ms 12.1MB 667ms 27ms go 1.24.3
go 2-m.go 375ms 1.6ms 13.9MB 780ms 33ms go 1.24.3
acton 1.act 759ms 44ms 23.8MB 833ms 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 301ms 21ms 39.5MB 287ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 307ms 11ms 71.6MB 293ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 2.go 427ms 3.7ms 20.4MB 413ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 746ms 1.8ms 21.7MB 733ms 10ms go 1.24.3
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 560.9MB 6627ms 93ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 53ms 2.6ms 10.1MB 43ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 58ms 1.1ms 21.6MB 50ms 0ms go 1.24.3
go 2.go 109ms 1.9ms 4.9MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 181ms 2.1ms 5.8MB 170ms 0ms go 1.24.3
acton 1.act 2461ms 15ms 192.4MB 2957ms 57ms actonc 0.25.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 1191ms 8.1ms 8.6MB 1180ms 3ms go 1.24.3
acton 1-m.act 3454ms 71ms 7.0MB 3500ms 2400ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 283ms 4.5ms 8.6MB 273ms 0ms go 1.24.3
acton 1-m.act 970ms 26ms 6.0MB 937ms 717ms actonc 0.25.0