Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Javascript VS Lua benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sat Nov 16 2024, 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
javascript 1-m.js 903ms 17ms 180.1MB 1383ms 233ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1-m.js 1225ms 4.9ms 273.0MB 2117ms 157ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 3463ms 70ms 172.8MB 3323ms 123ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4960ms 27ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 96ms 1.8ms 78.3MB 77ms 23ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 127ms 2.5ms 82.5MB 130ms 23ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 286ms 1.1ms 15.9MB 263ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 810ms 1.8ms 16.9MB 790ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 1610ms 26ms 94.0MB 1693ms 57ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 2129ms 15ms 100.5MB 2137ms 73ms bun 1.1.34

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 156ms 2.8ms 75.9MB 143ms 20ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 180ms 2.2ms 85.6MB 190ms 40ms bun 1.1.34

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 279ms 2.8ms 67.1MB 283ms 33ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 653ms 5.6ms 77.3MB 623ms 23ms bun 1.1.34

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 128ms 1.6ms 65.4MB 143ms 17ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 511ms 3.7ms 66.0MB 477ms 23ms bun 1.1.34

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.6ms 31.4MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 30ms 0.1ms 52.1MB 10ms 10ms node 23.1.0

http-server

Input: 3000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.bun.js 393ms 25ms 68.7MB 123ms 420ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1-m.js 2057ms 1804ms 249.5MB 3413ms 1893ms node 23.1.0

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.bun.js 174ms 8.4ms 54.1MB 40ms 87ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 408ms 0.2ms 85.6MB 330ms 137ms node 23.1.0

json-serde

Input: sample 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 86ms 4.3ms 65.6MB 67ms 3ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 110ms 1.2ms 79.3MB 100ms 13ms node 23.1.0

Input: canada 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 380ms 1.5ms 206.5MB 343ms 77ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 682ms 2.1ms 206.8MB 777ms 90ms node 23.1.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 2.js 311ms 2.2ms 66.6MB 307ms 7ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 552ms 1.4ms 64.7MB 533ms 13ms node 23.1.0
javascript 2.js 638ms 4.6ms 121.9MB 677ms 63ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 895ms 5.4ms 106.0MB 977ms 80ms bun 1.1.34

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 2.js 837ms 0.9ms 72.4MB 820ms 20ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 1581ms 6.1ms 71.6MB 1560ms 13ms node 23.1.0
javascript 2.js 1815ms 3.6ms 122.4MB 1950ms 77ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 2584ms 10ms 106.1MB 2877ms 143ms bun 1.1.34

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 162ms 1.3ms 61.7MB 143ms 13ms node 23.1.0
javascript 2.js 165ms 1.4ms 60.3MB 157ms 3ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 326ms 3.6ms 114.6MB 360ms 67ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 2.js 348ms 4.1ms 125.6MB 360ms 57ms bun 1.1.34

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1-m.js 510ms 32ms 138.8MB 643ms 143ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 528ms 2.4ms 134.4MB 600ms 70ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4953ms 33ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4933ms 47ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 121ms 1.5ms 86.4MB 100ms 33ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 157ms 2.6ms 102.4MB 157ms 37ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 1122ms 32ms 31.0MB 1097ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2145ms 2.0ms 28.6MB 2120ms 10ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6.js 454ms 4.7ms 59.9MB 437ms 7ms node 23.1.0
javascript 6.js 659ms 2.2ms 44.6MB 650ms 7ms bun 1.1.34
lua 4.lua 716ms 7.4ms 2.4MB 707ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 76ms 2.2ms 2.4MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
javascript 6.js 77ms 1.1ms 60.1MB 70ms 3ms node 23.1.0
javascript 6.js 85ms 1.3ms 44.8MB 77ms 3ms bun 1.1.34
lua 4.lua 1120ms 22ms 2.3MB 1107ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 2575ms 7.4ms 63.8MB 2587ms 13ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 2791ms 20ms 83.9MB 2820ms 40ms bun 1.1.34

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 689ms 7.5ms 61.7MB 687ms 20ms node 23.1.0
javascript 1.js 907ms 143ms 82.9MB 913ms 27ms bun 1.1.34

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 3.js timeout 0.0ms 92.0MB 4980ms 23ms node 23.1.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 3.js 1123ms 6.1ms 74.5MB 1103ms 17ms node 23.1.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 2158ms 16ms 114.9MB 8220ms 57ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 4052ms 6.0ms 2.5MB 4043ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 643ms 8.4ms 118.0MB 2277ms 40ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 1024ms 0.9ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 258ms 1.0ms 2.3MB 247ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
javascript 6-m.js 264ms 1.9ms 113.5MB 810ms 43ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7