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Acton VS Rust benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Mar 25 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 1295ms 3.8ms 33.6MB 1273ms 10ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 5.rs 1401ms 21ms 33.8MB 1377ms 7ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 3.rs 1556ms 12ms 49.8MB 1523ms 20ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.1MB 5977ms 80ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 4.rs 123ms 2.5ms 5.8MB 113ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 5.rs 127ms 3.9ms 5.8MB 117ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 3.rs 136ms 2.8ms 7.8MB 123ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1.act 835ms 22ms 12.0MB 973ms 73ms actonc 0.24.1

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 120ms 0.7ms 3.6MB 110ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1.act 265ms 20ms 7.1MB 230ms 70ms actonc 0.24.1
rust 2.rs 424ms 2.4ms 3.8MB 410ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 33ms 1.6ms 2.9MB 23ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 78ms 1.2ms 3.0MB 70ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1.act 101ms 17ms 5.3MB 83ms 27ms actonc 0.24.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 1.2ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 1.rs 1.4ms 0.2ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0-nightly
acton 1.act 3.6ms 0.3ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.24.1

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 708ms 3.7ms 33.8MB 683ms 10ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1.act 3317ms 13ms 102.0MB 3620ms 57ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 153ms 0.3ms 9.8MB 140ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1.act 715ms 22ms 30.5MB 753ms 33ms actonc 0.24.1

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 2.rs 317ms 3.9ms 6.7MB 307ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 1.rs 323ms 1.8ms 40.9MB 303ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 561.0MB 6737ms 120ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 61ms 2.9ms 11.6MB 50ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 79ms 2.3ms 2.9MB 70ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1.act 2404ms 16ms 192.3MB 2937ms 40ms actonc 0.24.1

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 1529ms 3.0ms 2.7MB 1307ms 203ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 1714ms 6.0ms 2.7MB 1623ms 80ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1-m.act 3057ms 164ms 6.7MB 2860ms 2093ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 324ms 4.0ms 2.4MB 297ms 10ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 382ms 2.4ms 2.4MB 370ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1-m.act 870ms 31ms 5.7MB 770ms 633ms actonc 0.24.1