Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Go 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
go 1.go 1214ms 12ms 55.0MB 1190ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 2372ms 13ms 46.1MB 5267ms 43ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 3623ms 23ms 173.0MB 3477ms 133ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4953ms 33ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 115ms 1.5ms 5.6MB 107ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 209ms 0.5ms 8.0MB 370ms 10ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 292ms 3.1ms 15.9MB 267ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 824ms 5.5ms 16.9MB 807ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 0.9ms 0.1ms 0.4MB 0ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 1.5ms 0.1ms 3.4MB 0ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 1.6ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 820ms 47ms 63.2MB 797ms 10ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 1112ms 7.9ms 55.0MB 1093ms 3ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 1461ms 6.1ms 39.0MB 3090ms 37ms go 1.24.1
go 2-m.go 1661ms 2.3ms 42.9MB 3680ms 40ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4947ms 37ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.4MB 4923ms 63ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 176ms 2.5ms 9.8MB 160ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 2.go 206ms 2.2ms 17.1MB 190ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1-m.go 332ms 4.7ms 12.2MB 677ms 20ms go 1.24.1
go 2-m.go 373ms 2.8ms 13.9MB 787ms 27ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 1392ms 85ms 31.1MB 1360ms 13ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2291ms 16ms 28.6MB 2270ms 10ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
go 1.go 349ms 3.0ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
go 1.go 352ms 2.1ms 3.5MB 343ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 4.lua 713ms 1.8ms 2.3MB 703ms 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 37ms 0.1ms 3.5MB 30ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 38ms 0.7ms 0.4MB 30ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 4.lua 75ms 1.1ms 2.4MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1112ms 26ms 2.3MB 1103ms 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 1911ms 17ms 4.3MB 7403ms 10ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 3659ms 12ms 5.6MB 3650ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 4068ms 9.8ms 2.5MB 4057ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go timeout 0.0ms 0.5MB 4990ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
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
go 4-m.go 481ms 0.6ms 5.5MB 1843ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 916ms 4.3ms 3.5MB 910ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 1021ms 2.2ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 1397ms 0.4ms 0.5MB 1387ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
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
go 4-m.go 125ms 0.8ms 5.5MB 450ms 0ms go 1.24.1
go 1.go 231ms 1.3ms 3.5MB 220ms 0ms go 1.24.1
lua 1.lua 261ms 2.8ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
go 1.go 352ms 0.6ms 0.4MB 340ms 0ms tinygo 0.37.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7