Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Perl VS Lua benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Apr 01 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
lua 1.lua 3534ms 46ms 173.0MB 3387ms 133ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4953ms 33ms lua 5.4.7
perl 1.pl timeout 0.0ms 77.8MB 4957ms 30ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 290ms 3.9ms 15.8MB 270ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 823ms 10ms 16.9MB 807ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 1.pl 1821ms 7.9ms 14.4MB 1807ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 3620ms 21ms 10.9MB 3607ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
perl 1.pl 371ms 2.6ms 6.6MB 360ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.2ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1.4ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 1.pl 2.7ms 0.2ms 5.3MB 0ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 725ms 7.3ms 2.3MB 713ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 2.pl timeout 0.0ms 6.1MB 4990ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 76ms 3.0ms 2.3MB 70ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1139ms 49ms 2.3MB 1127ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 2.pl 2724ms 26ms 6.1MB 2713ms 0ms perl 5.40.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 4075ms 1.1ms 2.5MB 4063ms 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 9.9MB 19727ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1023ms 5.5ms 2.4MB 1013ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
perl 4.pl timeout 0.0ms 10.1MB 19560ms 10ms perl 5.40.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 260ms 2.7ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
perl 4-m.pl 3427ms 15ms 9.4MB 13227ms 3ms perl 5.40.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7