Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Acton VS Wasm 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
wasm 5.rs 1774ms 4.7ms 33.7MB 1757ms 7ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1818ms 20ms 49.7MB 1790ms 13ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 4.rs 1821ms 4.3ms 33.8MB 1803ms 7ms wasmtime 32.0.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 66.9MB 5943ms 87ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 5.rs 170ms 2.0ms 19.7MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 4.rs 177ms 2.1ms 19.7MB 163ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 3.rs 180ms 5.3ms 21.7MB 163ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
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
wasm 1.rs 421ms 3.5ms 19.4MB 407ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0

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
wasm 1.rs 115ms 2.5ms 18.8MB 100ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0

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
wasm 1.rs 6.4ms 0.3ms 16.1MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 885ms 0.7ms 43.7MB 860ms 10ms wasmtime 32.0.0
acton 1.act 3256ms 12ms 84.6MB 3660ms 60ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 197ms 2.7ms 23.7MB 183ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
acton 1.act 693ms 11ms 24.0MB 760ms 33ms actonc 0.25.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 367ms 10ms 22.7MB 353ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 1.rs 458ms 4.0ms 56.9MB 443ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 561.0MB 6610ms 93ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 90ms 0.5ms 27.6MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
wasm 2.rs 95ms 0.6ms 18.9MB 83ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
acton 1.act 2441ms 6.0ms 192.4MB 2940ms 60ms actonc 0.25.0

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 2190ms 4.4ms 19.1MB 2173ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
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
wasm 2.rs 519ms 3.4ms 18.1MB 507ms 0ms wasmtime 32.0.0
acton 1-m.act 960ms 34ms 6.1MB 940ms 687ms actonc 0.25.0