Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS Rust benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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
rust 4.rs 1246ms 3.8ms 33.8MB 1220ms 13ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 5.rs 1349ms 11ms 33.8MB 1327ms 7ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 3.rs 1475ms 58ms 49.8MB 1443ms 17ms rustc 1.84.0
lua 1.lua 3542ms 27ms 172.9MB 3407ms 117ms 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 4.rs 122ms 1.4ms 5.8MB 110ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 5.rs 124ms 0.7ms 5.8MB 110ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 3.rs 139ms 4.3ms 7.8MB 123ms 3ms rustc 1.84.0
lua 1.lua 291ms 1.8ms 15.8MB 267ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 819ms 1.8ms 16.9MB 803ms 7ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
rust 1.rs 1.2ms 0.0ms 1.9MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 1.rs 1.3ms 0.1ms 1.8MB 0ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0-nightly
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.1ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.8ms 0.4ms 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 694ms 5.4ms 33.8MB 673ms 7ms rustc 1.84.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.5MB 4940ms 47ms 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
rust 1.rs 151ms 3.7ms 9.8MB 137ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
lua 1.lua 1152ms 5.2ms 31.1MB 1120ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2299ms 31ms 28.6MB 2263ms 20ms 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 167ms 7.9ms 1.9MB 153ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 7-i.rs 236ms 0.8ms 1.9MB 227ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 1.rs 239ms 0.8ms 1.8MB 230ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 2.rs 279ms 1.1ms 1.8MB 267ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 3.rs 280ms 0.3ms 1.9MB 267ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0-nightly
lua 4.lua 725ms 27ms 2.3MB 717ms 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 21ms 3.7ms 1.8MB 10ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 7-i.rs 26ms 0.4ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 1.rs 26ms 0.5ms 1.9MB 17ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 2.rs 30ms 0.2ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 3.rs 30ms 0.2ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0-nightly
lua 4.lua 74ms 1.2ms 2.3MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1103ms 17ms 2.3MB 1090ms 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 0.6ms 4.6MB 1907ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 499ms 0.2ms 4.2MB 1927ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 8.rs 1010ms 1.5ms 2.4MB 1000ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 1942ms 1.3ms 6.2MB 7613ms 3ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 7.rs 2082ms 9.0ms 2.0MB 2070ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
lua 1.lua 4060ms 12ms 2.5MB 4047ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
rust 2.rs 4212ms 29ms 2.0MB 4203ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4987ms 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 0.3ms 4.2MB 463ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 128ms 0.3ms 6.1MB 470ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 8.rs 255ms 0.7ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 491ms 0.2ms 4.1MB 1880ms 7ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 7.rs 525ms 4.8ms 1.9MB 517ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
lua 1.lua 1017ms 2.5ms 2.4MB 1010ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
rust 2.rs 1050ms 2.4ms 2.0MB 1037ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
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
rust 8-m.rs 36ms 0.4ms 4.1MB 107ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0-nightly
rust 7-m.rs 36ms 0.4ms 4.1MB 103ms 7ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 8.rs 66ms 0.8ms 2.0MB 57ms 0ms rustc 1.86.0-nightly
rust 2-m.rs 127ms 0.2ms 4.1MB 460ms 3ms rustc 1.84.0
rust 7.rs 134ms 2.4ms 1.9MB 127ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
lua 1.lua 257ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 247ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
rust 2.rs 265ms 1.3ms 2.0MB 253ms 0ms rustc 1.84.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.7