Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Acton VS Wasm 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
wasm 5.rs 1797ms 32ms 33.1MB 1777ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 1834ms 21ms 49.1MB 1803ms 20ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 1842ms 12ms 33.1MB 1823ms 7ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 5.rs 170ms 3.3ms 19.1MB 157ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 4.rs 181ms 5.1ms 19.2MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 3.rs 181ms 5.6ms 21.2MB 167ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
acton 1.act 261ms 7.1ms 7.1MB 230ms 70ms actonc 0.24.1
wasm 1.rs 419ms 3.7ms 18.6MB 407ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
acton 1.act 97ms 12ms 5.4MB 77ms 30ms actonc 0.24.1
wasm 1.rs 112ms 0.5ms 17.9MB 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 0.2ms 3.9MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.24.1
wasm 1.rs 7.2ms 0.3ms 17.1MB 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 887ms 2.5ms 41.3MB 863ms 10ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 1.rs 195ms 1.6ms 23.1MB 180ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 2.rs 375ms 1.7ms 22.0MB 360ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 1.rs 468ms 5.9ms 56.1MB 453ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 1.rs 95ms 3.2ms 26.9MB 80ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
wasm 2.rs 97ms 0.6ms 18.4MB 87ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 2.rs 2214ms 13ms 18.1MB 2200ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
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
wasm 2.rs 524ms 3.6ms 17.3MB 510ms 0ms wasmtime 31.0.0
acton 1-m.act 884ms 28ms 5.5MB 803ms 650ms actonc 0.24.1