Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

C VS Acton 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.)

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 1.1ms 0.1ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 1.c 1.2ms 0.1ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1.c 1.4ms 0.3ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
acton 1.act 4.3ms 0.4ms 8.0MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.24.1

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1-m.c 181ms 12ms 25.6MB 417ms 13ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1-m.c 295ms 7.0ms 27.7MB 997ms 17ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1-m.c 30ms 0.6ms 13.1MB 63ms 3ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1-m.c 37ms 1.4ms 15.0MB 103ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 247ms 0.9ms 1.5MB 233ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 5.c 299ms 0.1ms 1.5MB 290ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 8-i.c 302ms 2.2ms 2.1MB 290ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 308ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 311ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 300ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 5.c 315ms 1.9ms 2.3MB 303ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 316ms 8.2ms 1.5MB 307ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 2.c 318ms 2.4ms 2.1MB 307ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 8-i.c 332ms 0.7ms 2.3MB 320ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 27ms 0.4ms 1.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 5.c 32ms 0.2ms 1.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 8-i.c 33ms 0.3ms 2.1MB 20ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5.c 34ms 0.4ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 2.c 34ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 27ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 2.c 34ms 0.8ms 1.5MB 23ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0
c 5.c 35ms 0.5ms 2.1MB 30ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 2.c 35ms 0.2ms 2.1MB 23ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 8-i.c 36ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 30ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 267ms 2.6ms 40.8MB 247ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 1.c 273ms 11ms 40.9MB 260ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1.c 284ms 0.5ms 40.3MB 263ms 3ms zigcc 0.13.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 52ms 3.3ms 11.6MB 40ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 1.c 52ms 1.2ms 11.7MB 40ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 1.c 55ms 2.1ms 11.0MB 40ms 0ms zigcc 0.13.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 4-m.c 971ms 0.9ms 4.0MB 3807ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 6-im.c 973ms 27ms 4.1MB 3773ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 6-im.c 1018ms 30ms 5.3MB 3953ms 7ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 1102ms 20ms 4.1MB 4300ms 3ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 1127ms 17ms 7.2MB 4397ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 1327ms 0.2ms 7.3MB 5197ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 1824ms 3.8ms 5.3MB 7187ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 1982ms 14ms 4.1MB 7777ms 3ms gcc 14.2.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 6-im.c 250ms 2.0ms 4.0MB 950ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 254ms 3.2ms 4.1MB 967ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 6-im.c 261ms 2.3ms 5.3MB 970ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 285ms 3.0ms 4.0MB 1090ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 288ms 0.1ms 5.1MB 1093ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 342ms 3.7ms 7.3MB 1313ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 469ms 2.2ms 5.4MB 1797ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 505ms 5.3ms 4.0MB 1953ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 6-im.c 71ms 0.7ms 4.0MB 247ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 72ms 0.7ms 4.1MB 253ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 6-im.c 72ms 0.0ms 5.1MB 233ms 3ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 81ms 1.7ms 4.0MB 283ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0
c 4-m.c 82ms 4.3ms 5.1MB 280ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 5-im.c 108ms 26ms 7.1MB 367ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 126ms 3.5ms 7.2MB 450ms 0ms clang 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
c 3-m.c 136ms 2.4ms 4.0MB 500ms 0ms gcc 14.2.0