Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Acton VS Java benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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
java 2.java 467ms 1.5ms 646.0MB 567ms 97ms openjdk 23
java 2-m.java 468ms 12ms 645.0MB 687ms 90ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2.java 498ms 2.1ms 572.9MB 563ms 113ms openjdk 21
java 2.java 1170ms 8.1ms 1044.5MB 570ms 760ms openjdk/zgc 21
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 69.0MB 5947ms 107ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 2.java 126ms 6.8ms 96.2MB 147ms 40ms openjdk 23
java 2.java 127ms 1.9ms 168.9MB 160ms 23ms openjdk 21
java 2-m.java 150ms 3.7ms 231.2MB 210ms 67ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2.java 307ms 4.8ms 241.9MB 163ms 197ms openjdk/zgc 21
acton 1.act 840ms 40ms 12.0MB 967ms 77ms actonc 0.24.1

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 269ms 4.3ms 8.1MB 247ms 63ms actonc 0.24.1
java 1-m.java 611ms 50ms 226.3MB 1660ms 63ms openjdk 23
java 1-m.java 630ms 48ms 412.9MB 1207ms 117ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1-m.java 681ms 6.9ms 267.6MB 1783ms 80ms openjdk 21
java 1-m.java 943ms 32ms 528.5MB 1630ms 413ms openjdk/zgc 21

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 100ms 2.2ms 7.2MB 80ms 37ms actonc 0.24.1
java 1-m.java 302ms 19ms 231.6MB 593ms 67ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1-m.java 329ms 2.1ms 177.6MB 883ms 63ms openjdk 21
java 1-m.java 373ms 21ms 127.4MB 1010ms 43ms openjdk 23
java 1-m.java 513ms 35ms 215.4MB 1007ms 213ms openjdk/zgc 21

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.8ms 0.3ms 8.3MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.24.1
java 1.java 64ms 1.6ms 54.9MB 66ms 18ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 71ms 6.1ms 43.9MB 80ms 16ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 72ms 6.3ms 44.7MB 70ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 186ms 4.8ms 44.6MB 90ms 126ms openjdk/zgc 21

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 1-m.java 397ms 2.9ms 630.4MB 593ms 97ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 401ms 1.0ms 537.3MB 483ms 103ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 401ms 4.9ms 679.9MB 467ms 90ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 1072ms 7.5ms 966.2MB 473ms 723ms openjdk/zgc 21
acton 1.act 3246ms 7.1ms 101.8MB 3543ms 43ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 1-m.java 164ms 3.1ms 207.5MB 237ms 40ms openjdk 21
java 1-m.java 164ms 2.2ms 160.1MB 243ms 37ms openjdk 23
java 1-m.java 207ms 1.6ms 255.6MB 343ms 57ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 432ms 23ms 343.8MB 200ms 307ms openjdk/zgc 21
acton 1.act 691ms 2.3ms 32.5MB 723ms 30ms actonc 0.24.1

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 1.java 402ms 0.4ms 118.1MB 447ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 409ms 10ms 115.0MB 467ms 17ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 566ms 4.4ms 112.7MB 467ms 160ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 1-m.java 613ms 19ms 236.5MB 893ms 70ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2.java 783ms 1.3ms 57.6MB 843ms 20ms openjdk 21
java 2.java 788ms 14ms 60.7MB 843ms 17ms openjdk 23
java 2.java 838ms 5.5ms 53.0MB 770ms 140ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2-m.java 1347ms 43ms 203.8MB 2387ms 103ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 561.0MB 6750ms 100ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
java 1.java 155ms 5.6ms 68.1MB 207ms 20ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 157ms 1.5ms 64.9MB 207ms 17ms openjdk 21
java 1-m.java 200ms 4.4ms 130.6MB 273ms 43ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 2.java 260ms 2.9ms 50.2MB 320ms 23ms openjdk 21
java 2.java 266ms 6.5ms 50.5MB 307ms 23ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 285ms 4.9ms 63.4MB 210ms 140ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2.java 365ms 1.7ms 47.4MB 303ms 133ms openjdk/zgc 21
java 2-m.java 486ms 11ms 151.2MB 857ms 67ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
acton 1.act 2338ms 14ms 192.4MB 2857ms 37ms actonc 0.24.1

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1-m.act 3163ms 97ms 6.7MB 2887ms 2157ms actonc 0.24.1
java 1.java 3183ms 10ms 374.6MB 3637ms 103ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1.java 3692ms 33ms 412.3MB 4563ms 97ms openjdk 23
java 1.java 3696ms 87ms 425.5MB 4553ms 100ms openjdk 21
java 1.java timeout 0.0ms 1870.9MB 4497ms 1297ms openjdk/zgc 21

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1-m.act 868ms 4.4ms 7.5MB 770ms 610ms actonc 0.24.1
java 1.java 874ms 7.9ms 373.7MB 1197ms 107ms graal/jvm 17.0.8
java 1-m.java 1011ms 13ms 402.8MB 1770ms 103ms openjdk 23
java 1-m.java 1012ms 39ms 351.1MB 1780ms 100ms openjdk 21
java 1.java 2009ms 52ms 1383.0MB 1723ms 1053ms openjdk/zgc 21