Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Acton VS Ruby benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Mon May 19 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
ruby 1-m.rb 4550ms 58ms 807.5MB 6423ms 470ms truffleruby 24.2.1
ruby 1.rb 4702ms 91ms 150.6MB 4603ms 87ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 67.0MB 5913ms 87ms actonc 0.25.0
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 70.4MB 4947ms 40ms ruby 3.4.4

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 1.rb 493ms 7.5ms 20.3MB 467ms 10ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 1-m.rb 536ms 62ms 418.0MB 1057ms 167ms truffleruby 24.2.1
acton 1.act 866ms 49ms 12.1MB 997ms 63ms actonc 0.25.0
ruby 1.rb 939ms 7.1ms 19.5MB 917ms 13ms ruby 3.4.4

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 226ms 10.0ms 8.0MB 207ms 30ms actonc 0.25.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 82ms 15ms 5.8MB 63ms 13ms actonc 0.25.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3.8ms 0.2ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.25.0
ruby 1.rb 35ms 0.5ms 141.3MB 14ms 24ms truffleruby 24.2.1
ruby 1.rb 51ms 1.3ms 12.9MB 36ms 2ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb 51ms 1.6ms 12.8MB 38ms 4ms ruby 3.4.4

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 3359ms 11ms 84.5MB 3770ms 57ms actonc 0.25.0
ruby 1-m.rb 3839ms 65ms 570.9MB 9800ms 350ms truffleruby 24.2.1
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 94.1MB 4943ms 47ms ruby 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 97.2MB 4943ms 43ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 759ms 44ms 23.8MB 833ms 33ms actonc 0.25.0
ruby 1-m.rb 2093ms 126ms 535.8MB 5357ms 270ms truffleruby 24.2.1
ruby 1.rb 3224ms 7.7ms 38.3MB 3190ms 17ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb 4324ms 12ms 37.6MB 4293ms 13ms ruby 3.4.4

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act timeout 0.0ms 560.9MB 6627ms 93ms actonc 0.25.0
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 325.3MB 4857ms 133ms ruby 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 327.0MB 4853ms 130ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 732.0MB 5073ms 150ms truffleruby 24.2.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
ruby 1-m.rb 1691ms 6.2ms 486.6MB 2437ms 163ms truffleruby 24.2.1
acton 1.act 2461ms 15ms 192.4MB 2957ms 57ms actonc 0.25.0
ruby 1.rb 3458ms 150ms 131.6MB 3363ms 80ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb 4471ms 23ms 131.1MB 4383ms 73ms ruby 3.4.4

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1-m.act 3454ms 71ms 7.0MB 3500ms 2400ms actonc 0.25.0
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 130.1MB 4853ms 137ms ruby 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 131.0MB 4833ms 157ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4
ruby 1.rb timeout 0.0ms 441.9MB 13307ms 403ms truffleruby 24.2.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1-m.act 970ms 26ms 6.0MB 937ms 717ms actonc 0.25.0
ruby 1.rb 1737ms 69ms 130.2MB 1657ms 63ms ruby 3.4.4
ruby 1-m.rb 1762ms 210ms 387.2MB 4653ms 207ms truffleruby 24.2.1
ruby 1.rb 1805ms 4.1ms 131.2MB 1680ms 113ms ruby/yjit 3.4.4