Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Julia VS Lua benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Sun Jan 29 2023, full log can be found HERE

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[x86_64][2 cores] Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8370C CPU @ 2.80GHz (Model 106)

* -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
lua 1.lua 1.9ms 0.5ms 2.5MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2.4ms 0.9ms 1.5MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
julia 1.jl 179ms 0.4ms 163.9MB 114ms 70ms julia/aot 1.8.5
julia 1.jl 194ms 1.8ms 171.2MB 132ms 76ms julia 1.8.5

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 7.jl 549ms 0.1ms 168.6MB 507ms 120ms julia/aot 1.8.5
julia 7.jl 709ms 1.2ms 224.5MB 663ms 120ms julia 1.8.5
lua 4.lua 1104ms 10ms 1.5MB 1093ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 1.5MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 4.lua 114ms 1.8ms 2.3MB 100ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
julia 7.jl 246ms 3.3ms 169.8MB 210ms 100ms julia/aot 1.8.5
julia 7.jl 395ms 6.8ms 223.7MB 333ms 133ms julia 1.8.5
lua 4.lua 1204ms 27ms 1.4MB 1190ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

nsieve

Input: 12

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 1.jl 423ms 0.6ms 156.3MB 390ms 113ms julia/aot 1.8.5
julia 1.jl 528ms 2.4ms 203.3MB 487ms 113ms julia 1.8.5

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 1.jl 220ms 2.5ms 150.2MB 177ms 87ms julia/aot 1.8.5
julia 1.jl 326ms 1.7ms 195.1MB 293ms 113ms julia 1.8.5

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 4.jl 1112ms 26ms 239.5MB 1023ms 163ms julia 1.8.5
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 119.6MB 4940ms 43ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 180.4MB 4920ms 60ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 4.jl 304ms 1.4ms 221.2MB 263ms 120ms julia 1.8.5
lua 1.lua 409ms 5.4ms 25.0MB 387ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1054ms 8.6ms 17.4MB 1037ms 3ms lua 5.4.4

fannkuch-redux

Input: 11

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 1775ms 12ms 210.1MB 3120ms 127ms julia 1.8.5

Input: 10

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 527ms 5.9ms 209.8MB 693ms 117ms julia 1.8.5

fasta

Input: 2500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 7-m.jl 630ms 2.1ms 291.8MB 860ms 147ms julia 1.8.5

Input: 250000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 7-m.jl 451ms 0.5ms 226.0MB 563ms 117ms julia 1.8.5

knucleotide

Input: 2500000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 8.jl 1118ms 9.1ms 273.3MB 1470ms 157ms julia 1.8.5

Input: 250000_in

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 8.jl 763ms 4.0ms 259.1MB 847ms 143ms julia 1.8.5

pidigits

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 3.jl 791ms 4.6ms 176.9MB 760ms 103ms julia 1.8.5
julia 1.jl 1373ms 3.2ms 260.8MB 1303ms 147ms julia 1.8.5

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 3.jl 342ms 0.3ms 176.2MB 307ms 113ms julia 1.8.5
julia 1.jl 780ms 23ms 261.5MB 710ms 133ms julia 1.8.5

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 1370ms 7.3ms 192.9MB 2410ms 103ms julia 1.8.5
julia 3-m.jl 2107ms 0.8ms 211.4MB 3787ms 123ms julia 1.8.5
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.6MB 4990ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 578ms 0.1ms 192.5MB 853ms 110ms julia 1.8.5
julia 3-m.jl 804ms 1.2ms 210.3MB 1233ms 120ms julia 1.8.5
lua 1.lua 1561ms 0.9ms 2.5MB 1550ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.1MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
julia 2-m.jl 381ms 2.7ms 192.3MB 467ms 113ms julia 1.8.5
lua 1.lua 391ms 0.7ms 1.5MB 380ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
julia 3.jl 477ms 5.1ms 211.5MB 577ms 137ms julia 1.8.5
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 1.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.4