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Benchmarks

Acton VS Javascript 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
javascript 1-m.js 983ms 44ms 182.9MB 1513ms 227ms bun 1.2.13
javascript 1.js 1066ms 5.1ms 468.4MB 1000ms 220ms node 24.0.2
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
javascript 1.js 102ms 0.9ms 77.4MB 83ms 23ms bun 1.2.13
javascript 1.js 130ms 2.5ms 80.7MB 130ms 27ms node 24.0.2
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
acton 1.act 226ms 10.0ms 8.0MB 207ms 30ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 1.js 285ms 5.4ms 66.5MB 297ms 27ms node 24.0.2
javascript 1.js 520ms 3.2ms 75.8MB 493ms 20ms bun 1.2.13

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 82ms 15ms 5.8MB 63ms 13ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 1.js 127ms 2.1ms 62.6MB 113ms 17ms node 24.0.2
javascript 1.js 499ms 1.6ms 65.8MB 480ms 17ms bun 1.2.13

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.8ms 0.2ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.6ms 31.9MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.13
javascript 1.js 32ms 0.5ms 50.0MB 16ms 8ms node 24.0.2

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1-m.js 486ms 0.8ms 138.7MB 660ms 113ms bun 1.2.13
javascript 1.js 579ms 3.1ms 229.5MB 577ms 120ms node 24.0.2
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
javascript 1.js 119ms 4.5ms 85.8MB 107ms 30ms bun 1.2.13
javascript 1.js 163ms 3.2ms 100.3MB 160ms 33ms node 24.0.2
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
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
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
acton 1-m.act 3454ms 71ms 7.0MB 3500ms 2400ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 3.js 4622ms 14ms 122.3MB 4573ms 47ms node 24.0.2

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1-m.act 970ms 26ms 6.0MB 937ms 717ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 3.js 1012ms 8.0ms 73.2MB 993ms 13ms node 24.0.2