Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS C# 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
csharp 1.cs 937ms 10ms 185.4MB 937ms 137ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 1089ms 203ms 175.6MB 1003ms 140ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 1663ms 38ms 98.4MB 1863ms 183ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua 3557ms 39ms 172.9MB 3410ms 133ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4953ms 37ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 1.cs 142ms 2.5ms 44.0MB 123ms 10ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 161ms 19ms 31.8MB 100ms 30ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 203ms 9.4ms 50.0MB 160ms 37ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 292ms 2.5ms 15.8MB 270ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 818ms 6.5ms 17.0MB 800ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 1.cs 7.5ms 2.9ms 9.6MB 0ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 32ms 1.0ms 23.9MB 20ms 2ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 35ms 0.3ms 26.1MB 20ms 0ms dotnet 9.0.300

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 537ms 11ms 121.0MB 490ms 90ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 614ms 11ms 143.3MB 563ms 120ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 2.cs 684ms 6.9ms 136.2MB 630ms 97ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 764ms 21ms 161.6MB 710ms 117ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 1297ms 5.6ms 140.0MB 1507ms 167ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4950ms 33ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4930ms 57ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 137ms 9.3ms 57.3MB 110ms 30ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 158ms 4.3ms 74.7MB 120ms 50ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 2.cs 262ms 6.1ms 75.2MB 227ms 37ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 1.cs 266ms 1.9ms 69.4MB 240ms 37ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 272ms 2.6ms 88.1MB 243ms 53ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 1219ms 43ms 31.1MB 1187ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2203ms 7.2ms 28.6MB 2187ms 7ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 9.cs 363ms 3.7ms 27.6MB 340ms 7ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 8.cs 372ms 0.9ms 9.8MB 360ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 8.cs 423ms 2.3ms 27.6MB 403ms 3ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 4.lua 714ms 3.6ms 2.3MB 703ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 8.cs 1252ms 5.3ms 22.4MB 1240ms 0ms mono 6.12.0
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
csharp 8.cs 46ms 0.5ms 9.8MB 30ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
lua 4.lua 75ms 1.4ms 2.4MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 9.cs 93ms 1.5ms 27.8MB 73ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 8.cs 95ms 2.7ms 27.6MB 77ms 7ms dotnet 9.0.300
csharp 8.cs 162ms 0.3ms 22.8MB 150ms 0ms mono 6.12.0
lua 4.lua 1124ms 44ms 2.3MB 1113ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 3-m.cs 1877ms 33ms 10.4MB 7243ms 3ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 3-m.cs 1988ms 108ms 30.3MB 7253ms 20ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 4074ms 26ms 2.5MB 4067ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 4713ms 116ms 24.7MB 18030ms 17ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 3-m.cs 475ms 1.5ms 10.5MB 1810ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 3-m.cs 535ms 3.2ms 30.1MB 1887ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 1025ms 6.0ms 2.4MB 1013ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 1236ms 42ms 25.8MB 4650ms 7ms mono 6.12.0
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
csharp 3-m.cs 128ms 1.5ms 10.5MB 450ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.300
csharp 3-m.cs 176ms 1.1ms 28.5MB 503ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.300
lua 1.lua 259ms 1.6ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 356ms 11ms 25.4MB 1197ms 3ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7