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Lua VS Haxe 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
haxe 1.hx 1304ms 18ms 145.9MB 1477ms 67ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 3463ms 70ms 172.8MB 3323ms 123ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 4506ms 55ms 495.1MB 5190ms 227ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 50.6MB 5427ms 427ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 85.0MB 5040ms 663ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 52.9MB 7687ms 443ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 132.9MB 7530ms 753ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
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
haxe 1.hx 86ms 1.8ms 25.6MB 70ms 10ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 286ms 1.1ms 15.9MB 263ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 389ms 5.6ms 60.3MB 407ms 30ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 643ms 16ms 10.7MB 617ms 40ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 677ms 5.6ms 13.2MB 737ms 60ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
lua 1.lua 810ms 1.8ms 16.9MB 790ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
haxe 2.hx 910ms 7.9ms 15.5MB 823ms 130ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 945ms 11ms 27.1MB 910ms 173ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0

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
haxe 1.hx 2.2ms 0.3ms 4.7MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2.6ms 0.1ms 4.4MB 0ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 3.7ms 0.3ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 910ms 22ms 94.9MB 1020ms 43ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 34.6MB 4840ms 513ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 59.7MB 6090ms 480ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
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
haxe 1.hx 168ms 4.1ms 26.6MB 163ms 13ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 1122ms 32ms 31.0MB 1097ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 1284ms 8.6ms 12.7MB 1243ms 117ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1311ms 1.1ms 22.3MB 1320ms 137ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
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
lua 4.lua 716ms 7.4ms 2.4MB 707ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 855ms 3.4ms 5.1MB 843ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 1054ms 2.8ms 5.0MB 1043ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 1382ms 7.5ms 27.6MB 1513ms 40ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 2399ms 2.0ms 5.7MB 2390ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 1.hx 2449ms 2.4ms 5.7MB 2437ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.4MB 4987ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx timeout 0.0ms 4.4MB 4990ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 5.2MB 3810ms 1693ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx timeout 0.0ms 5.9MB 4037ms 1417ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
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
lua 4.lua 76ms 2.2ms 2.4MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 2.hx 90ms 1.1ms 5.0MB 80ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 111ms 3.0ms 5.1MB 100ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 153ms 1.3ms 27.8MB 150ms 7ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 245ms 1.9ms 5.7MB 233ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 1.hx 252ms 3.5ms 5.7MB 240ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 3.hx 664ms 1.7ms 5.1MB 520ms 197ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
haxe 2.hx 672ms 7.7ms 4.4MB 660ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 3.hx 776ms 1.7ms 5.8MB 633ms 203ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
haxe 1.hx 809ms 4.9ms 4.4MB 797ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
lua 4.lua 1120ms 22ms 2.3MB 1107ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
haxe 1.hx 3918ms 28ms 5.2MB 3897ms 7ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 4052ms 6.0ms 2.5MB 4043ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 6.9MB 4987ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 5.8MB 4983ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
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
haxe 1.hx 981ms 2.9ms 5.1MB 967ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 1024ms 0.9ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 2390ms 2.8ms 6.5MB 2380ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx timeout 0.0ms 5.8MB 4987ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
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
haxe 1.hx 252ms 2.4ms 5.0MB 243ms 0ms haxe/hl/c 4.3.6
lua 1.lua 258ms 1.0ms 2.3MB 247ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
haxe 1.hx 601ms 1.6ms 5.4MB 587ms 0ms haxe/cpp 4.3.6
haxe 1.hx 2314ms 4.6ms 5.8MB 2300ms 0ms haxe/hl/jit 1.14.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7