Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

C VS Acton benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Fri Dec 09 2022, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][2 cores] Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8272CL CPU @ 2.60GHz (Model 85)

* -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 1.8ms 0.7ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 1.c 2.1ms 0.7ms 0.9MB 0ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.632+d69e97ae1
c 1.c 3.4ms 0.5ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
acton 1.act 5.2ms 3.9ms 3.1MB 0ms 0ms actonc 0.14.2

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1-m.c 238ms 9.4ms 23.6MB 387ms 10ms gcc 12.2.0
c 1-m.c 496ms 13ms 20.6MB 850ms 17ms clang 14.0.0

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 32ms 1.0ms 13.4MB 37ms 3ms gcc 12.2.0
c 1-m.c 61ms 2.5ms 9.7MB 97ms 0ms clang 14.0.0

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 269ms 0.9ms 0.9MB 257ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.632+d69e97ae1
c 8-i.c 329ms 0.5ms 1.3MB 320ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5.c 334ms 0.9ms 1.3MB 320ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5.c 354ms 0.8ms 1.4MB 343ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 5.c 354ms 1.6ms 1.0MB 340ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.632+d69e97ae1
c 2.c 362ms 0.6ms 1.0MB 350ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.632+d69e97ae1
c 8-i.c 370ms 19ms 1.4MB 360ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 2.c 379ms 8.8ms 1.4MB 367ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 2.c 480ms 1.0ms 1.3MB 470ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 30ms 1.5ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.632+d69e97ae1
c 5.c 34ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 30ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 8-i.c 36ms 0.4ms 1.3MB 27ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5.c 37ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 30ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.632+d69e97ae1
c 8-i.c 37ms 1.1ms 1.4MB 30ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 5.c 38ms 0.6ms 1.4MB 30ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 2.c 38ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 27ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.632+d69e97ae1
c 2.c 45ms 3.8ms 1.4MB 30ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 2.c 53ms 2.2ms 1.3MB 40ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 817ms 11ms 41.0MB 790ms 17ms gcc 12.2.0
c 1.c 821ms 3.0ms 40.3MB 797ms 10ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.632+d69e97ae1
c 1.c 840ms 31ms 40.8MB 803ms 20ms clang 14.0.0

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 111ms 1.8ms 11.6MB 97ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 1.c 119ms 0.8ms 11.6MB 103ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 1.c 122ms 2.7ms 10.9MB 110ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.632+d69e97ae1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 4-m.c 1268ms 3.4ms 1.3MB 2480ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 1515ms 0.5ms 1.3MB 2970ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 1561ms 3.6ms 3.2MB 3063ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 5-im.c 1586ms 15ms 1.3MB 3100ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 4-m.c 1612ms 21ms 3.1MB 3127ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 3-m.c 1864ms 15ms 3.5MB 3667ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 3-m.c 1875ms 14ms 1.3MB 3663ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5-im.c 1940ms 9.8ms 3.5MB 3810ms 3ms clang 14.0.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 4-m.c 331ms 7.9ms 1.3MB 623ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 390ms 3.0ms 1.3MB 740ms 3ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 400ms 2.8ms 3.3MB 763ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 4-m.c 404ms 0.6ms 3.2MB 770ms 3ms clang 14.0.0
c 5-im.c 409ms 5.1ms 1.3MB 777ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 3-m.c 477ms 1.6ms 1.3MB 920ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 3-m.c 481ms 0.9ms 3.2MB 920ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 5-im.c 497ms 2.0ms 3.1MB 953ms 0ms clang 14.0.0

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 4-m.c 89ms 1.1ms 1.3MB 160ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 106ms 1.2ms 1.3MB 187ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 107ms 0.3ms 3.2MB 190ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 4-m.c 110ms 1.3ms 3.5MB 197ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 5-im.c 111ms 0.7ms 1.3MB 200ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 3-m.c 129ms 1.9ms 1.3MB 237ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5-im.c 134ms 0.8ms 3.2MB 240ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 3-m.c 138ms 16ms 3.3MB 237ms 0ms clang 14.0.0