Javascript VS Wasm benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Wed Jan 22 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
javascript 1-m.js 950ms 61ms 187.4MB 1437ms 247ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1-m.js 1251ms 9.3ms 276.4MB 2177ms 160ms node 23.6.0
wasm 3.rs 1735ms 38ms 51.3MB 1700ms 17ms wasmtime 29.0.1
wasm 4.rs 1755ms 3.5ms 35.3MB 1730ms 13ms wasmtime 29.0.1
wasm 5.rs 1769ms 18ms 37.2MB 1753ms 3ms wasmtime 29.0.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 95ms 0.8ms 79.4MB 77ms 23ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 127ms 2.0ms 82.4MB 117ms 33ms node 23.6.0
wasm 5.rs 170ms 0.9ms 21.3MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
wasm 4.rs 171ms 2.2ms 23.3MB 160ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
wasm 3.rs 172ms 6.1ms 23.3MB 160ms 3ms wasmtime 29.0.1

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 1128ms 15ms 21.5MB 1110ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 1.js 1594ms 14ms 93.6MB 1670ms 63ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 2295ms 49ms 100.5MB 2313ms 70ms bun 1.1.45

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 3.rs 83ms 2.3ms 20.0MB 70ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 1.js 156ms 1.2ms 76.5MB 137ms 23ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 187ms 1.2ms 86.5MB 203ms 30ms bun 1.1.45

edigits

Input: 250001

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 277ms 0.8ms 67.3MB 293ms 23ms node 23.6.0
wasm 1.rs 416ms 1.5ms 20.8MB 403ms 3ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 1.js 714ms 5.9ms 77.1MB 693ms 17ms bun 1.1.45

Input: 100000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 113ms 1.5ms 20.1MB 100ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 1.js 126ms 0.7ms 65.5MB 140ms 17ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 525ms 2.3ms 66.8MB 493ms 23ms bun 1.1.45

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 7.3ms 0.2ms 20.6MB 0ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 1.js 13ms 0.5ms 32.3MB 0ms 10ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 31ms 0.6ms 52.0MB 14ms 8ms node 23.6.0

http-server

Input: 3000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1-m.bun.js 363ms 16ms 71.3MB 133ms 420ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 3147ms 48ms 195.6MB 2993ms 1487ms node 23.6.0

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.bun.js 127ms 14ms 54.5MB 30ms 93ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 382ms 1.7ms 84.8MB 360ms 103ms node 23.6.0

json-serde

Input: sample 5000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 85ms 1.9ms 68.8MB 57ms 20ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 111ms 0.8ms 79.0MB 100ms 20ms node 23.6.0

Input: canada 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 360ms 0.4ms 182.1MB 330ms 70ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 701ms 3.1ms 206.6MB 800ms 90ms node 23.6.0

lru

Input: 1000 1000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 84ms 1.3ms 19.7MB 70ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 2.js 307ms 1.4ms 66.8MB 297ms 13ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 559ms 2.7ms 64.5MB 543ms 13ms node 23.6.0
javascript 2.js 640ms 0.8ms 127.1MB 687ms 63ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 826ms 4.8ms 110.7MB 910ms 77ms bun 1.1.45

Input: 1000 3000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 233ms 2.5ms 19.6MB 223ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 2.js 840ms 3.3ms 72.4MB 823ms 17ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 1586ms 6.0ms 71.4MB 1567ms 17ms node 23.6.0
javascript 2.js 1816ms 29ms 122.9MB 1960ms 60ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 2536ms 140ms 112.1MB 2847ms 137ms bun 1.1.45

Input: 100 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 45ms 1.3ms 20.9MB 33ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 1.js 164ms 2.5ms 61.8MB 150ms 7ms node 23.6.0
javascript 2.js 164ms 0.9ms 60.8MB 157ms 10ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 323ms 3.2ms 133.9MB 347ms 83ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 2.js 359ms 16ms 126.8MB 380ms 60ms bun 1.1.45

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1-m.js 485ms 10ms 141.8MB 623ms 127ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 526ms 3.4ms 134.5MB 583ms 83ms node 23.6.0
wasm 1.rs 886ms 9.9ms 45.3MB 853ms 17ms wasmtime 29.0.1

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 119ms 1.0ms 87.0MB 107ms 27ms bun 1.1.45
javascript 1.js 157ms 2.1ms 102.3MB 137ms 47ms node 23.6.0
wasm 1.rs 192ms 0.4ms 25.3MB 177ms 3ms wasmtime 29.0.1

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 407ms 1.8ms 19.2MB 390ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 6.js 459ms 2.4ms 59.7MB 447ms 7ms node 23.6.0
wasm 2.rs 579ms 1.4ms 19.2MB 563ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 6.js 658ms 0.3ms 45.6MB 653ms 7ms bun 1.1.45

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 1.rs 49ms 0.4ms 21.2MB 37ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
wasm 2.rs 66ms 1.1ms 19.2MB 57ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 6.js 77ms 1.0ms 59.8MB 60ms 10ms node 23.6.0
javascript 6.js 85ms 2.1ms 45.4MB 83ms 3ms bun 1.1.45

secp256k1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 2555ms 27ms 63.2MB 2557ms 17ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 2692ms 12ms 84.3MB 2700ms 53ms bun 1.1.45
wasm 1.rs 3552ms 38ms 18.9MB 3533ms 3ms wasmtime 29.0.1

Input: 500

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 1.js 675ms 1.8ms 61.9MB 673ms 20ms node 23.6.0
javascript 1.js 710ms 3.9ms 83.8MB 703ms 33ms bun 1.1.45
wasm 1.rs 892ms 4.5ms 19.6MB 873ms 3ms wasmtime 29.0.1

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 2195ms 7.4ms 20.2MB 2177ms 7ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 3.js 4723ms 215ms 92.1MB 4707ms 20ms node 23.6.0

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 520ms 2.1ms 21.4MB 503ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 3.js 1013ms 23ms 74.3MB 990ms 17ms node 23.6.0

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 2158ms 5.7ms 116.7MB 8230ms 53ms node 23.6.0
wasm 2.rs 3585ms 7.0ms 19.0MB 3567ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
wasm 7.rs 4890ms 13ms 21.0MB 4873ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
javascript 6-m.js 642ms 4.1ms 114.0MB 2290ms 50ms node 23.6.0
wasm 2.rs 905ms 2.5ms 20.9MB 890ms 3ms wasmtime 29.0.1
wasm 7.rs 1227ms 3.4ms 20.7MB 1210ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
wasm 2.rs 243ms 13ms 18.8MB 230ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1
javascript 6-m.js 263ms 2.0ms 113.2MB 823ms 40ms node 23.6.0
wasm 7.rs 315ms 2.2ms 20.7MB 300ms 0ms wasmtime 29.0.1