Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Javascript 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
javascript 1-m.js 903ms 17ms 180.1MB 1383ms 233ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1-m.js 1225ms 4.9ms 273.0MB 2117ms 157ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 3463ms 70ms 172.8MB 3323ms 123ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
javascript 1.js 96ms 1.8ms 78.3MB 77ms 23ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 127ms 2.5ms 82.5MB 130ms 23ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 286ms 1.1ms 15.9MB 263ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 810ms 1.8ms 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 1.4ms 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
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.6ms 31.4MB 0ms 0ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 30ms 0.1ms 52.1MB 10ms 10ms node 23.1.0

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1-m.js 510ms 32ms 138.8MB 643ms 143ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 528ms 2.4ms 134.4MB 600ms 70ms node 23.1.0
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
javascript 1.js 121ms 1.5ms 86.4MB 100ms 33ms bun 1.1.34
javascript 1.js 157ms 2.6ms 102.4MB 157ms 37ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 1122ms 32ms 31.0MB 1097ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
javascript 6.js 454ms 4.7ms 59.9MB 437ms 7ms node 23.1.0
javascript 6.js 659ms 2.2ms 44.6MB 650ms 7ms bun 1.1.34
lua 4.lua 716ms 7.4ms 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
lua 4.lua 76ms 2.2ms 2.4MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
javascript 6.js 77ms 1.1ms 60.1MB 70ms 3ms node 23.1.0
javascript 6.js 85ms 1.3ms 44.8MB 77ms 3ms bun 1.1.34
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
javascript 6-m.js 2158ms 16ms 114.9MB 8220ms 57ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 4052ms 6.0ms 2.5MB 4043ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
javascript 6-m.js 643ms 8.4ms 118.0MB 2277ms 40ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua 1024ms 0.9ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
lua 1.lua 258ms 1.0ms 2.3MB 247ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
javascript 6-m.js 264ms 1.9ms 113.5MB 810ms 43ms node 23.1.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7