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Benchmarks

Acton VS Javascript 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
javascript 1-m.js 950ms 61ms 187.4MB 1437ms 247ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1-m.js 1251ms 9.3ms 276.4MB 2177ms 160ms node 23.6.0
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
javascript 1.js 95ms 0.8ms 79.4MB 77ms 23ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 127ms 2.0ms 82.4MB 117ms 33ms node 23.6.0
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
javascript 1.js 277ms 0.8ms 67.3MB 293ms 23ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 714ms 5.9ms 77.1MB 693ms 17ms bun 1.1.45

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
javascript 1.js 126ms 0.7ms 65.5MB 140ms 17ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 525ms 2.3ms 66.8MB 493ms 23ms bun 1.1.45

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
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.5ms 32.3MB 0ms 10ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 31ms 0.6ms 52.0MB 14ms 8ms node 23.6.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1-m.js 485ms 10ms 141.8MB 623ms 127ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 526ms 3.4ms 134.5MB 583ms 83ms node 23.6.0
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
javascript 1.js 119ms 1.0ms 87.0MB 107ms 27ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 157ms 2.1ms 102.3MB 137ms 47ms node 23.6.0
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
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
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
javascript 3.js 4723ms 215ms 92.1MB 4707ms 20ms node 23.6.0

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
javascript 3.js 1013ms 23ms 74.3MB 990ms 17ms node 23.6.0