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Benchmarks

Acton VS Javascript 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
javascript 1-m.js 961ms 19ms 189.3MB 1440ms 253ms bun 1.2.11
javascript 1-m.js 1237ms 36ms 250.6MB 2120ms 157ms node 23.11.0
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
javascript 1.js 101ms 3.1ms 79.5MB 77ms 30ms bun 1.2.11
javascript 1.js 125ms 2.3ms 78.7MB 127ms 27ms node 23.11.0
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
acton 1.act 231ms 12ms 8.1MB 207ms 40ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 1.js 271ms 3.9ms 63.7MB 287ms 23ms node 23.11.0
javascript 1.js 522ms 4.8ms 77.6MB 497ms 20ms bun 1.2.11

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 90ms 15ms 6.0MB 73ms 13ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 1.js 124ms 0.7ms 61.4MB 143ms 17ms node 23.11.0
javascript 1.js 500ms 3.0ms 67.6MB 477ms 20ms bun 1.2.11

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.8ms 0.3ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.3ms 33.4MB 0ms 10ms bun 1.2.11
javascript 1.js 30ms 0.8ms 47.7MB 18ms 2ms node 23.11.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1-m.js 487ms 5.6ms 135.7MB 657ms 133ms bun 1.2.11
javascript 1.js 533ms 5.3ms 130.5MB 620ms 57ms node 23.11.0
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
javascript 1.js 115ms 2.7ms 87.3MB 100ms 30ms bun 1.2.11
javascript 1.js 158ms 1.6ms 98.3MB 160ms 33ms node 23.11.0
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
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
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
acton 1-m.act 3448ms 37ms 6.8MB 3523ms 2430ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 3.js 4795ms 24ms 88.0MB 4770ms 27ms node 23.11.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1-m.act 960ms 34ms 6.1MB 940ms 687ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 3.js 1040ms 4.3ms 70.7MB 1020ms 13ms node 23.11.0