Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Acton VS Wasm 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
wasm 5.rs 1828ms 60ms 33.1MB 1810ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 1855ms 21ms 33.1MB 1833ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1870ms 21ms 49.2MB 1847ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 5.rs 171ms 2.0ms 19.2MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 179ms 1.6ms 19.2MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 187ms 5.5ms 21.1MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
acton 1.act 265ms 20ms 7.1MB 230ms 70ms actonc 0.24.1
wasm 1.rs 425ms 3.8ms 18.6MB 410ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 101ms 17ms 5.3MB 83ms 27ms actonc 0.24.1
wasm 1.rs 113ms 2.1ms 18.1MB 100ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.6ms 0.3ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.24.1
wasm 1.rs 7.0ms 0.7ms 17.4MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 906ms 18ms 41.1MB 880ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 1.rs 198ms 6.2ms 23.1MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 2.rs 400ms 1.6ms 22.0MB 387ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 1.rs 520ms 6.4ms 56.1MB 507ms 3ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 1.rs 96ms 1.4ms 27.0MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 101ms 0.5ms 18.4MB 90ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 2.rs 2227ms 21ms 18.3MB 2210ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 2.rs 520ms 1.0ms 17.3MB 507ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1-m.act 870ms 31ms 5.7MB 770ms 633ms actonc 0.24.1