Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS C# benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu May 01 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 943ms 22ms 185.3MB 937ms 150ms dotnet 9.0.203
csharp 1.cs 955ms 17ms 188.9MB 957ms 143ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 1.cs 1699ms 20ms 101.5MB 1897ms 217ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua 3518ms 55ms 172.8MB 3373ms 130ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.8MB 4943ms 40ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 1.cs 123ms 5.1ms 31.9MB 87ms 33ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 1.cs 140ms 0.7ms 44.1MB 117ms 13ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 206ms 6.4ms 50.4MB 157ms 37ms dotnet 9.0.203
lua 1.lua 290ms 4.0ms 15.8MB 270ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 809ms 8.7ms 16.9MB 790ms 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 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua 1.7ms 0.4ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 1.cs 10ms 5.6ms 7.6MB 0ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 1.cs 31ms 1.0ms 21.4MB 20ms 0ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 34ms 0.4ms 26.0MB 20ms 2ms dotnet 9.0.203

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 542ms 21ms 121.4MB 490ms 90ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 1.cs 603ms 8.7ms 143.3MB 557ms 117ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 2.cs 678ms 16ms 136.3MB 627ms 100ms dotnet 9.0.203
csharp 1.cs 761ms 17ms 164.3MB 697ms 130ms dotnet 9.0.203
csharp 1.cs 1306ms 19ms 140.5MB 1507ms 173ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4943ms 43ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4940ms 47ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
csharp 2.cs 135ms 2.4ms 57.2MB 110ms 30ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 1.cs 157ms 2.1ms 74.5MB 120ms 53ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 2.cs 258ms 7.0ms 74.8MB 223ms 40ms dotnet 9.0.203
csharp 1.cs 258ms 0.7ms 69.4MB 233ms 30ms mono 6.12.0
csharp 1.cs 281ms 5.4ms 89.5MB 237ms 57ms dotnet 9.0.203
lua 1.lua 1081ms 4.4ms 31.3MB 1053ms 13ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2159ms 20ms 28.8MB 2140ms 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 358ms 2.8ms 28.0MB 340ms 7ms dotnet 9.0.203
csharp 8.cs 370ms 3.1ms 9.9MB 360ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 8.cs 423ms 3.6ms 27.5MB 400ms 7ms dotnet 9.0.203
lua 4.lua 713ms 2.4ms 2.3MB 703ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 8.cs 1250ms 5.1ms 20.4MB 1237ms 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 1.1ms 9.9MB 37ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
lua 4.lua 76ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 9.cs 90ms 1.4ms 27.6MB 73ms 3ms dotnet 9.0.203
csharp 8.cs 94ms 1.2ms 27.5MB 80ms 3ms dotnet 9.0.203
csharp 8.cs 164ms 3.9ms 22.8MB 150ms 0ms mono 6.12.0
lua 4.lua 1142ms 41ms 2.3MB 1133ms 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 1857ms 0.8ms 10.5MB 7263ms 10ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 3-m.cs 1927ms 7.1ms 30.0MB 7350ms 17ms dotnet 9.0.203
lua 1.lua 4063ms 2.9ms 2.5MB 4053ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 4664ms 7.4ms 25.5MB 18030ms 17ms mono 6.12.0
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
csharp 3-m.cs 473ms 1.1ms 10.4MB 1810ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 3-m.cs 536ms 6.8ms 29.8MB 1880ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.203
lua 1.lua 1023ms 1.2ms 2.4MB 1013ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 1213ms 6.5ms 25.6MB 4547ms 10ms 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 127ms 1.6ms 10.5MB 450ms 0ms dotnet/aot 9.0.203
csharp 3-m.cs 181ms 4.2ms 28.5MB 503ms 10ms dotnet 9.0.203
lua 1.lua 262ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
csharp 3-m.cs 353ms 13ms 25.5MB 1193ms 10ms mono 6.12.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7