Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Lua benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Dec 31 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
lua 1.lua 3311ms 71ms 172.9MB 3173ms 127ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4940ms 47ms lua 5.4.7
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.6MB 4967ms 17ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 277ms 1.4ms 15.6MB 257ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 757ms 1.9ms 17.0MB 743ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 1.pl 1698ms 16ms 14.4MB 1683ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 3446ms 24ms 10.9MB 3430ms 3ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 357ms 7.1ms 6.6MB 343ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.0ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2.2ms 1.0ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 1.pl 2.6ms 0.4ms 5.1MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 677ms 3.8ms 2.3MB 670ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4987ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 72ms 3.0ms 2.3MB 60ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1042ms 22ms 2.3MB 1033ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 2.pl 2623ms 40ms 6.3MB 2613ms 0ms perl 5.40.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 3844ms 19ms 2.5MB 3830ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 13.8MB 19753ms 10ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 970ms 12ms 2.4MB 960ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 14.3MB 19510ms 17ms perl 5.40.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 243ms 1.7ms 2.3MB 230ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
perl 4-m.pl 3251ms 16ms 12.6MB 12587ms 10ms perl 5.40.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7