Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Rust 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
rust 4.rs 1251ms 6.0ms 33.8MB 1233ms 7ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 5.rs 1378ms 31ms 33.8MB 1357ms 10ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 3.rs 1482ms 30ms 49.8MB 1443ms 23ms rustc 1.83.0
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
rust 5.rs 123ms 0.3ms 5.8MB 110ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 4.rs 129ms 19ms 5.8MB 120ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 3.rs 142ms 4.7ms 7.8MB 130ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
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
rust 1.rs 1.3ms 0.0ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 1.rs 1.3ms 0.0ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.85.0-nightly
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

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 697ms 5.9ms 33.8MB 670ms 13ms rustc 1.83.0
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
rust 1.rs 150ms 2.8ms 9.8MB 137ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
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
rust 4-i.rs 165ms 3.7ms 1.9MB 153ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 7-i.rs 236ms 0.8ms 1.8MB 227ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 1.rs 238ms 0.5ms 1.8MB 230ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 2.rs 279ms 0.3ms 1.8MB 267ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 3.rs 280ms 0.4ms 1.9MB 270ms 0ms rustc 1.85.0-nightly
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
rust 4-i.rs 19ms 0.4ms 1.8MB 10ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 1.rs 26ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 17ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 7-i.rs 26ms 0.2ms 1.8MB 13ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 2.rs 30ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 3.rs 30ms 0.2ms 1.9MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.85.0-nightly
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
rust 8-m.rs 498ms 0.9ms 6.5MB 1900ms 7ms rustc 1.85.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 498ms 1.8ms 4.2MB 1907ms 10ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 8.rs 1016ms 12ms 2.5MB 1003ms 0ms rustc 1.85.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 1952ms 2.2ms 6.2MB 7643ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 7.rs 2122ms 22ms 1.9MB 2117ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
lua 1.lua 4048ms 11ms 2.5MB 4037ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
rust 2.rs 4203ms 9.7ms 2.0MB 4193ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
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
rust 8-m.rs 128ms 0.4ms 6.2MB 470ms 3ms rustc 1.85.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 129ms 0.5ms 6.1MB 463ms 7ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 8.rs 255ms 1.5ms 2.3MB 243ms 0ms rustc 1.85.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 492ms 0.5ms 4.1MB 1890ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 7.rs 530ms 4.7ms 1.8MB 523ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
lua 1.lua 1016ms 1.5ms 2.4MB 1003ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
rust 2.rs 1051ms 1.9ms 1.9MB 1040ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
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
rust 7-m.rs 36ms 0.2ms 4.1MB 107ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 8-m.rs 36ms 0.5ms 4.1MB 117ms 0ms rustc 1.85.0-nightly
rust 8.rs 66ms 0.3ms 2.0MB 57ms 0ms rustc 1.85.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 127ms 0.6ms 4.1MB 457ms 7ms rustc 1.83.0
rust 7.rs 135ms 2.0ms 1.8MB 127ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
lua 1.lua 257ms 0.8ms 2.3MB 243ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
rust 2.rs 266ms 1.0ms 1.9MB 253ms 0ms rustc 1.83.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7