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Benchmarks

Acton VS Javascript benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jun 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 907ms 13ms 181.8MB 1350ms 187ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 1049ms 5.1ms 469.9MB 970ms 217ms node 24.1.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 5877ms 77ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 100ms 1.6ms 77.6MB 80ms 27ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 123ms 1.2ms 80.3MB 127ms 20ms node 24.1.0
acton 1.act 814ms 23ms 12.0MB 937ms 67ms actonc 0.25.0

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 220ms 2.2ms 8.0MB 197ms 33ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 1.js 278ms 1.0ms 66.7MB 293ms 23ms node 24.1.0
javascript 1.js 517ms 2.3ms 76.2MB 493ms 17ms bun 1.2.15

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 77ms 8.3ms 6.0MB 57ms 20ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 1.js 120ms 1.1ms 62.8MB 110ms 13ms node 24.1.0
javascript 1.js 508ms 1.3ms 65.6MB 487ms 20ms bun 1.2.15

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.4ms 0.3ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 1.js 12ms 0.4ms 31.5MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 30ms 0.6ms 49.8MB 18ms 6ms node 24.1.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1-m.js 463ms 1.1ms 136.5MB 613ms 113ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 558ms 2.7ms 230.3MB 553ms 113ms node 24.1.0
acton 1.act 3258ms 55ms 84.4MB 3627ms 60ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 114ms 2.2ms 85.0MB 100ms 30ms bun 1.2.15
javascript 1.js 156ms 1.2ms 100.3MB 150ms 33ms node 24.1.0
acton 1.act 697ms 11ms 23.8MB 757ms 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 6633ms 100ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 2432ms 41ms 229.8MB 2987ms 43ms 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 3374ms 156ms 6.8MB 3427ms 2370ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 3.js 4837ms 44ms 121.8MB 4787ms 47ms node 24.1.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1-m.act 965ms 82ms 6.1MB 883ms 747ms actonc 0.25.0
javascript 3.js 1043ms 5.1ms 73.1MB 1020ms 17ms node 24.1.0