Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Go benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Dec 01 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
go 1-m.go 2710ms 23ms 43.6MB 5730ms 53ms go 1.23.3
go 1.go 3491ms 59ms 52.2MB 3473ms 3ms tinygo 0.34.0
lua 1.lua 3498ms 64ms 172.9MB 3367ms 120ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4943ms 40ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 229ms 5.1ms 5.6MB 213ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
go 1-m.go 238ms 2.0ms 8.2MB 400ms 7ms go 1.23.3
lua 1.lua 294ms 1.7ms 15.8MB 273ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 809ms 6.7ms 16.9MB 787ms 3ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.7ms 0.3ms 0.1MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.2ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.23.3

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1-m.go 1640ms 27ms 40.9MB 3297ms 47ms go 1.23.3
go 2-m.go 1886ms 10ms 43.0MB 3980ms 47ms go 1.23.3
go 1.go 1934ms 5.2ms 52.1MB 1923ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
go 2.go 3292ms 35ms 90.4MB 3277ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4943ms 37ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.4MB 4927ms 57ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1-m.go 365ms 2.1ms 14.1MB 707ms 20ms go 1.23.3
go 1.go 383ms 2.4ms 13.4MB 367ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
go 2-m.go 412ms 1.3ms 14.1MB 833ms 33ms go 1.23.3
go 2.go 634ms 12ms 29.7MB 623ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
lua 1.lua 1219ms 75ms 31.1MB 1190ms 13ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2236ms 90ms 28.6MB 2217ms 3ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 344ms 0.4ms 0.1MB 337ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
go 1.go 361ms 1.5ms 3.4MB 347ms 0ms go 1.23.3
lua 4.lua 716ms 2.9ms 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
go 1.go 38ms 0.6ms 0.1MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
go 1.go 40ms 1.0ms 3.4MB 30ms 0ms go 1.23.3
lua 4.lua 75ms 2.5ms 2.3MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1124ms 21ms 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
go 4-m.go 1907ms 17ms 5.4MB 7330ms 10ms go 1.23.3
go 1.go 3680ms 35ms 5.4MB 3673ms 0ms go 1.23.3
lua 1.lua 4048ms 11ms 2.5MB 4037ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 0.5MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
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
go 4-m.go 479ms 0.2ms 5.5MB 1817ms 3ms go 1.23.3
go 1.go 934ms 5.6ms 3.4MB 927ms 0ms go 1.23.3
lua 1.lua 1016ms 1.5ms 2.4MB 1003ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 1390ms 1.4ms 0.4MB 1380ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 4-m.go 126ms 0.7ms 5.4MB 447ms 0ms go 1.23.3
go 1.go 234ms 4.3ms 3.4MB 223ms 0ms go 1.23.3
lua 1.lua 257ms 0.8ms 2.3MB 243ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 349ms 0.1ms 0.3MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.34.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7