Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Dart VS Lua benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jul 13 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
dart 1.dart 716ms 2.4ms 80.9MB 690ms 30ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 1.lua 3544ms 45ms 172.9MB 3407ms 123ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4947ms 40ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 77ms 1.4ms 42.8MB 50ms 17ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 1.lua 290ms 5.5ms 15.7MB 267ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 814ms 5.2ms 16.9MB 797ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 4912ms 17ms 19.4MB 5367ms 63ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 341ms 5.7ms 10.5MB 340ms 10ms dart/exe 3.8.1

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 3567ms 3.2ms 18.0MB 3530ms 27ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 590ms 2.3ms 10.0MB 563ms 17ms dart/exe 3.8.1

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 2931ms 12ms 6.3MB 2923ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 235ms 1.2ms 6.1MB 223ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 362ms 2.6ms 8.8MB 347ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 41ms 0.1ms 8.8MB 30ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

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 0.2ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7
dart 1.dart 3.7ms 0.3ms 5.7MB 0ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

http-server

Input: 3000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2-m.dart 1254ms 16ms 96.4MB 1303ms 1383ms dart/exe 3.8.1
dart 1.dart 4314ms 70ms 96.1MB 1490ms 1560ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2-m.dart 240ms 10ms 50.0MB 187ms 253ms dart/exe 3.8.1
dart 1.dart 2275ms 54ms 50.4MB 173ms 240ms dart/exe 3.8.1

json-serde

Input: sample 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 161ms 1.4ms 53.8MB 133ms 17ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: canada 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 1450ms 32ms 204.7MB 1703ms 103ms dart/exe 3.8.1

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 3-m.dart 1077ms 24ms 279.2MB 3200ms 120ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 3-m.dart 225ms 5.9ms 187.2MB 530ms 70ms dart/exe 3.8.1

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 166ms 4.9ms 9.1MB 153ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
dart 1.dart 572ms 3.4ms 9.1MB 557ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 484ms 7.2ms 9.1MB 477ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
dart 1.dart 1699ms 6.4ms 9.3MB 1683ms 3ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 78ms 0.7ms 9.0MB 67ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
dart 1.dart 118ms 2.2ms 9.1MB 107ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 322ms 2.5ms 63.6MB 300ms 23ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.4MB 4950ms 33ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4933ms 57ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 85ms 1.9ms 43.8MB 60ms 17ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 1.lua 1101ms 2.2ms 31.1MB 1073ms 17ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2187ms 8.5ms 28.6MB 2170ms 3ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 3.dart 411ms 3.9ms 6.1MB 400ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 4.lua 713ms 3.7ms 2.3MB 703ms 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
dart 3.dart 45ms 0.7ms 6.3MB 40ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 4.lua 74ms 0.9ms 2.3MB 67ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1154ms 10ms 2.3MB 1143ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 1246ms 11ms 14.8MB 1220ms 30ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 2.dart 306ms 3.5ms 14.8MB 290ms 7ms dart/exe 3.8.1

regex-redux

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart timeout 0.0ms 130.1MB 4963ms 40ms dart/exe 3.8.1

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 635ms 1.3ms 43.1MB 607ms 17ms dart/exe 3.8.1

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 3748ms 2.0ms 6.4MB 3740ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 1.lua 4063ms 4.0ms 2.5MB 4053ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
dart 2.dart 4934ms 6.4ms 6.4MB 4923ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
dart 1.dart 939ms 0.1ms 6.3MB 930ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 1.lua 1029ms 1.6ms 2.4MB 1020ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
dart 2.dart 1238ms 0.9ms 6.4MB 1230ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
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
dart 1.dart 240ms 2.1ms 6.3MB 230ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 1.lua 257ms 0.3ms 2.3MB 250ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
dart 2.dart 315ms 2.5ms 6.1MB 303ms 0ms dart/exe 3.8.1
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7