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Benchmarks

Acton VS Rust 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
rust 4.rs 1281ms 13ms 33.8MB 1260ms 7ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 5.rs 1340ms 6.3ms 33.8MB 1317ms 10ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 3.rs 1496ms 49ms 49.8MB 1463ms 17ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 4.rs 118ms 0.3ms 5.6MB 110ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 5.rs 128ms 5.4ms 5.8MB 117ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 3.rs 142ms 6.5ms 7.8MB 130ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 1.rs 124ms 1.5ms 3.6MB 120ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
acton 1.act 226ms 10.0ms 8.0MB 207ms 30ms actonc 0.25.0
rust 2.rs 421ms 2.7ms 3.6MB 410ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 33ms 0.7ms 2.9MB 23ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 2.rs 77ms 2.2ms 3.0MB 70ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
acton 1.act 82ms 15ms 5.8MB 63ms 13ms actonc 0.25.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 1.2ms 0.0ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 1.rs 1.7ms 0.6ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.89.0-nightly
acton 1.act 3.8ms 0.2ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.25.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 698ms 4.2ms 33.8MB 673ms 10ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 1.rs 153ms 2.6ms 9.8MB 143ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 2.rs 301ms 0.2ms 6.6MB 290ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 1.rs 331ms 4.3ms 40.9MB 317ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 1.rs 67ms 0.1ms 11.6MB 57ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 2.rs 77ms 2.0ms 2.9MB 70ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 1.rs 1529ms 17ms 2.7MB 1310ms 203ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 2.rs 1712ms 5.2ms 2.7MB 1627ms 70ms rustc 1.87.0
acton 1-m.act 3454ms 71ms 7.0MB 3500ms 2400ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 321ms 3.7ms 2.4MB 297ms 10ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 2.rs 385ms 5.9ms 2.4MB 377ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
acton 1-m.act 970ms 26ms 6.0MB 937ms 717ms actonc 0.25.0