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Acton VS Rust 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
rust 4.rs 1282ms 16ms 33.6MB 1257ms 13ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 5.rs 1382ms 66ms 33.8MB 1363ms 10ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 3.rs 1548ms 45ms 49.8MB 1517ms 13ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 4.rs 121ms 2.0ms 5.6MB 110ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 5.rs 128ms 1.8ms 5.8MB 120ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 3.rs 143ms 4.2ms 7.8MB 130ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 1.rs 125ms 1.3ms 3.6MB 117ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1.act 261ms 7.1ms 7.1MB 230ms 70ms actonc 0.24.1
rust 2.rs 425ms 2.1ms 3.6MB 413ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 34ms 0.8ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 77ms 1.2ms 3.0MB 70ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 1.rs 1.3ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.88.0-nightly
rust 1.rs 1.3ms 0.0ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 1.rs 722ms 31ms 33.8MB 697ms 10ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 1.rs 156ms 2.0ms 9.8MB 143ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 1.rs 302ms 4.2ms 40.9MB 287ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 314ms 1.2ms 6.6MB 300ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 1.rs 59ms 3.1ms 11.6MB 50ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 79ms 0.9ms 2.9MB 70ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 1.rs 1532ms 5.5ms 2.8MB 1317ms 197ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 1717ms 5.8ms 2.7MB 1630ms 73ms rustc 1.85.1
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
rust 1.rs 326ms 6.3ms 2.4MB 303ms 7ms rustc 1.85.1
rust 2.rs 388ms 2.0ms 2.4MB 380ms 0ms rustc 1.85.1
acton 1-m.act 884ms 28ms 5.5MB 803ms 650ms actonc 0.24.1