Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Acton VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon Mar 31 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
go 1.go 1214ms 12ms 55.0MB 1190ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2372ms 13ms 46.1MB 5267ms 43ms go 1.24.1
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 5977ms 77ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 115ms 1.5ms 5.6MB 107ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 209ms 0.5ms 8.0MB 370ms 10ms go 1.24.1
acton 1.act 832ms 29ms 12.1MB 970ms 70ms actonc 0.24.1

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 117ms 1.7ms 8.4MB 110ms 0ms go 1.24.1
acton 1.act 261ms 7.1ms 7.1MB 230ms 70ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 33ms 0.5ms 8.2MB 23ms 0ms go 1.24.1
acton 1.act 97ms 12ms 5.4MB 77ms 30ms actonc 0.24.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.9ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.1
acton 1.act 3.6ms 0.2ms 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
go 1.go 820ms 47ms 63.2MB 797ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 1112ms 7.9ms 55.0MB 1093ms 3ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 1461ms 6.1ms 39.0MB 3090ms 37ms go 1.24.1
go 2-m.go 1661ms 2.3ms 42.9MB 3680ms 40ms go 1.24.1
acton 1.act 3219ms 15ms 101.8MB 3503ms 50ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 176ms 2.5ms 9.8MB 160ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 206ms 2.2ms 17.1MB 190ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 332ms 4.7ms 12.2MB 677ms 20ms go 1.24.1
go 2-m.go 373ms 2.8ms 13.9MB 787ms 27ms go 1.24.1
acton 1.act 691ms 24ms 30.4MB 727ms 23ms actonc 0.24.1

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 272ms 4.7ms 39.5MB 260ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 278ms 0.1ms 71.7MB 267ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 2.go 427ms 1.8ms 21.2MB 417ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 742ms 2.8ms 21.6MB 727ms 7ms go 1.24.1
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 560.9MB 6817ms 97ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 53ms 0.1ms 10.1MB 40ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 57ms 2.1ms 21.6MB 50ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 2.go 109ms 2.0ms 4.9MB 100ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 183ms 1.8ms 6.1MB 170ms 0ms go 1.24.1
acton 1.act 2313ms 3.9ms 192.3MB 2840ms 43ms actonc 0.24.1

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 1173ms 7.7ms 8.7MB 1157ms 0ms go 1.24.1
acton 1-m.act 2906ms 70ms 6.6MB 2733ms 2017ms actonc 0.24.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 8.go 280ms 1.6ms 8.6MB 270ms 0ms go 1.24.1
acton 1-m.act 884ms 28ms 5.5MB 803ms 650ms actonc 0.24.1