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Benchmarks

Acton VS Python 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
python 1.py 1163ms 3.7ms 96.4MB 1093ms 57ms pypy 3.10.16
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 66.9MB 5943ms 87ms actonc 0.25.0
python 1.py timeout 0.0ms 41.0MB 4967ms 20ms cpython 3.13.3
python 1.py timeout 0.0ms 40.6MB 4747ms 240ms pyston 3.8.12

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
python 1.py 94ms 1.4ms 68.9MB 67ms 20ms pypy 3.10.16
python 1.py 477ms 5.2ms 11.9MB 453ms 10ms pyston 3.8.12
python 1.py 735ms 1.9ms 12.9MB 720ms 0ms cpython 3.13.3
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
python 1.py 254ms 1.8ms 83.3MB 213ms 27ms pypy 3.10.16
python 1.py 358ms 0.5ms 12.7MB 343ms 0ms cpython 3.13.3
python 1.py 2007ms 3.8ms 9.6MB 1993ms 0ms pyston 3.8.12

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
python 1.py 101ms 2.1ms 63.4MB 77ms 13ms pypy 3.10.16
python 1.py 110ms 2.3ms 11.6MB 97ms 0ms cpython 3.13.3
python 1.py 347ms 0.6ms 8.8MB 340ms 0ms pyston 3.8.12

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
python 1.py 12ms 0.6ms 7.6MB 0ms 0ms pyston 3.8.12
python 1.py 14ms 1.0ms 8.6MB 10ms 0ms cpython 3.13.3
python 1.py 29ms 1.3ms 51.6MB 10ms 10ms pypy 3.10.16

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
python 1.py 2205ms 15ms 202.6MB 2087ms 107ms pypy 3.10.16
acton 1.act 3256ms 12ms 84.6MB 3660ms 60ms actonc 0.25.0
python 1.py timeout 0.0ms 93.9MB 4953ms 37ms cpython 3.13.3
python 1.py timeout 0.0ms 130.3MB 4937ms 50ms pyston 3.8.12

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
python 1.py 374ms 1.8ms 105.3MB 317ms 40ms pypy 3.10.16
acton 1.act 693ms 11ms 24.0MB 760ms 33ms actonc 0.25.0
python 1.py 2897ms 36ms 37.3MB 2873ms 10ms cpython 3.13.3
python 1.py timeout 0.0ms 48.9MB 4940ms 50ms pyston 3.8.12

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
python 1.py 2568ms 13ms 369.6MB 2497ms 60ms pypy 3.10.16
python 2.py 3071ms 131ms 633.0MB 2887ms 167ms pyston 3.8.12
python 1.py 4763ms 47ms 320.4MB 4703ms 50ms pyston 3.8.12
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 561.0MB 6610ms 93ms actonc 0.25.0
python 1.py timeout 0.0ms 321.3MB 4960ms 20ms cpython 3.13.3
python 2.py timeout 0.0ms 633.7MB 4823ms 163ms cpython 3.13.3
python 2.py timeout 0.0ms 959.9MB 4720ms 267ms pypy 3.10.16

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
python 1.py 533ms 4.7ms 135.3MB 493ms 23ms pypy 3.10.16
python 2.py 719ms 1.6ms 164.2MB 673ms 30ms pyston 3.8.12
python 1.py 1046ms 3.4ms 86.1MB 1020ms 10ms pyston 3.8.12
python 2.py 1404ms 6.2ms 165.0MB 1367ms 27ms cpython 3.13.3
python 2.py 1537ms 17ms 290.2MB 1447ms 77ms pypy 3.10.16
acton 1.act 2441ms 6.0ms 192.4MB 2940ms 60ms actonc 0.25.0
python 1.py 2673ms 5.0ms 86.9MB 2650ms 10ms cpython 3.13.3

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
python 4.py 1915ms 12ms 8.9MB 1873ms 27ms pyston 3.8.12
python 4.py 1986ms 7.7ms 9.4MB 1933ms 40ms cpython 3.13.3
python 4.py 2182ms 4.7ms 89.6MB 2143ms 27ms pypy 3.10.16
acton 1-m.act 3448ms 37ms 6.8MB 3523ms 2430ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
python 4.py 451ms 2.1ms 8.6MB 440ms 0ms pyston 3.8.12
python 4.py 470ms 1.0ms 9.1MB 460ms 0ms cpython 3.13.3
python 4.py 550ms 2.6ms 83.9MB 520ms 20ms pypy 3.10.16
acton 1-m.act 960ms 34ms 6.1MB 940ms 687ms actonc 0.25.0