Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS C benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Fri Sep 30 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.)

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 544ms 19ms 24.9MB 527ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1188ms 4.8ms 17.2MB 1167ms 10ms lua 5.4.4

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 1.7ms 0.4ms 1.0MB 0ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
lua 1.lua 2.3ms 0.5ms 2.2MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
c 1.c 2.5ms 1.3ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 1.c 2.8ms 1.6ms 0.6MB 0ms 0ms zigcc 0.10.0-dev.4198+5e0d8a435
lua 1.lua 3.1ms 0.2ms 1.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 2026ms 112ms 38.6MB 2003ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 3128ms 107ms 41.5MB 3100ms 13ms lua 5.4.4

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 267ms 0.4ms 0.6MB 257ms 0ms zigcc 0.10.0-dev.4198+5e0d8a435
c 8-i.c 317ms 1.8ms 1.1MB 310ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 8-i.c 330ms 0.2ms 1.0MB 320ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5.c 336ms 1.2ms 1.0MB 320ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5.c 354ms 0.5ms 0.6MB 340ms 0ms zigcc 0.10.0-dev.4198+5e0d8a435
c 5.c 357ms 0.5ms 1.1MB 350ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 2.c 363ms 0.4ms 0.6MB 350ms 0ms zigcc 0.10.0-dev.4198+5e0d8a435
c 2.c 469ms 5.1ms 1.1MB 450ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 2.c 474ms 1.7ms 0.9MB 460ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
lua 4.lua 1110ms 5.7ms 1.1MB 1100ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 8-i.c 29ms 0.4ms 0.5MB 20ms 0ms zigcc 0.10.0-dev.4198+5e0d8a435
c 8-i.c 35ms 0.3ms 1.0MB 20ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 5.c 36ms 0.4ms 0.9MB 27ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 8-i.c 38ms 3.2ms 1.0MB 27ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5.c 38ms 0.4ms 0.6MB 30ms 0ms zigcc 0.10.0-dev.4198+5e0d8a435
c 5.c 38ms 0.5ms 1.1MB 30ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 2.c 39ms 0.4ms 0.6MB 30ms 0ms zigcc 0.10.0-dev.4198+5e0d8a435
c 2.c 50ms 0.1ms 0.9MB 40ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 2.c 50ms 1.0ms 1.1MB 40ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
lua 4.lua 117ms 1.9ms 2.4MB 105ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1429ms 75ms 1.1MB 1413ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 4-m.c 1262ms 6.4ms 0.9MB 2467ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 1439ms 1.2ms 1.0MB 2813ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 1443ms 17ms 3.2MB 2813ms 3ms clang 11.0.0
c 4-m.c 1543ms 17ms 3.1MB 3013ms 3ms clang 11.0.0
c 5-im.c 1587ms 17ms 1.0MB 3090ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5-im.c 1741ms 0.8ms 3.0MB 3407ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 3-m.c 1878ms 5.5ms 1.0MB 3680ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 3-m.c 1889ms 16ms 3.1MB 3700ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 4-m.c 331ms 3.8ms 1.0MB 623ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 371ms 0.5ms 3.1MB 710ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 6-im.c 374ms 5.9ms 1.0MB 700ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 4-m.c 396ms 2.7ms 3.1MB 753ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 5-im.c 412ms 1.2ms 0.9MB 783ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5-im.c 444ms 1.2ms 3.2MB 847ms 3ms clang 11.0.0
c 3-m.c 481ms 0.5ms 1.0MB 920ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 3-m.c 482ms 2.1ms 3.2MB 920ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
lua 1.lua 1405ms 0.6ms 2.3MB 1393ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 2000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 4-m.c 91ms 1.8ms 0.9MB 160ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 100ms 0.4ms 1.0MB 170ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 6-im.c 100ms 0.1ms 3.3MB 173ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 4-m.c 109ms 1.1ms 3.1MB 190ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 5-im.c 114ms 0.4ms 1.0MB 200ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
c 5-im.c 123ms 3.1ms 3.2MB 217ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 3-m.c 129ms 1.3ms 3.1MB 230ms 0ms clang 11.0.0
c 3-m.c 131ms 2.6ms 1.0MB 230ms 0ms gcc 12.2.0
lua 1.lua 355ms 0.5ms 1.1MB 340ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 0.0MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

coro-prime-sieve

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 574ms 5.3ms 5.0MB 557ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 1000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 37ms 1.6ms 2.9MB 30ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3