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Benchmarks

Acton VS Rust 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
rust 4.rs 1263ms 18ms 33.6MB 1243ms 3ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 5.rs 1337ms 12ms 33.8MB 1313ms 7ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 3.rs 1434ms 36ms 49.8MB 1403ms 17ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 4.rs 122ms 2.1ms 5.8MB 110ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 5.rs 125ms 2.8ms 5.8MB 113ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 3.rs 137ms 1.7ms 7.8MB 130ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 1.rs 121ms 2.9ms 3.6MB 113ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
acton 1.act 220ms 2.2ms 8.0MB 197ms 33ms actonc 0.25.0
rust 2.rs 415ms 1.7ms 3.6MB 407ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 34ms 1.8ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 2.rs 77ms 1.3ms 3.0MB 70ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
acton 1.act 77ms 8.3ms 6.0MB 57ms 20ms 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 1.4ms 0.2ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.89.0-nightly
acton 1.act 3.4ms 0.3ms 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 690ms 2.4ms 33.8MB 667ms 7ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 1.rs 152ms 5.9ms 9.8MB 143ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 1.rs 298ms 3.3ms 40.9MB 283ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 2.rs 308ms 4.1ms 6.6MB 293ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 1.rs 64ms 1.3ms 11.6MB 50ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 2.rs 78ms 1.1ms 2.9MB 70ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
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
rust 1.rs 1517ms 14ms 2.7MB 1313ms 187ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 2.rs 1714ms 21ms 2.7MB 1633ms 67ms rustc 1.87.0
acton 1-m.act 3374ms 156ms 6.8MB 3427ms 2370ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 319ms 4.3ms 2.4MB 290ms 13ms rustc 1.87.0
rust 2.rs 381ms 2.2ms 2.4MB 367ms 0ms rustc 1.87.0
acton 1-m.act 965ms 82ms 6.1MB 883ms 747ms actonc 0.25.0