Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Acton VS Zig 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
zig 1.zig 1906ms 32ms 49.0MB 1873ms 17ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 153ms 1.1ms 7.0MB 140ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 2275ms 0.2ms 2.5MB 2243ms 17ms zig 0.14.0

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
zig 1.zig 384ms 2.2ms 1.9MB 370ms 3ms zig 0.14.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
zig 1.zig 1.0ms 0.0ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 878ms 6.2ms 41.0MB 853ms 10ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 181ms 5.2ms 11.0MB 167ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 283ms 4.4ms 40.1MB 270ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 331ms 3.8ms 6.0MB 320ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 56ms 2.5ms 10.8MB 47ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
zig 2.zig 81ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 2466ms 27ms 2.2MB 2440ms 17ms zig 0.14.0
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
zig 1.zig 569ms 3.4ms 1.8MB 557ms 0ms zig 0.14.0
acton 1-m.act 870ms 31ms 5.7MB 770ms 633ms actonc 0.24.1