Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS C benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Thu Jul 13 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.)

binarytrees

Input: 18

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 119.5MB 4953ms 27ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 209.4MB 4930ms 50ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 416ms 5.6ms 25.2MB 393ms 10ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 1062ms 12ms 17.4MB 1040ms 3ms lua 5.4.4

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 1.c 1.8ms 0.5ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.3978+711b4e93e
lua 1.lua 1.9ms 0.2ms 2.3MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
c 1.c 1.9ms 0.8ms 1.3MB 0ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 1.c 1.9ms 0.5ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
lua 1.lua 3.0ms 2.4ms 1.5MB 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 159.2MB 4940ms 43ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 183.3MB 4927ms 53ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1526ms 27ms 36.0MB 1503ms 7ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2805ms 35ms 41.6MB 2773ms 13ms lua 5.4.4

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 2.c 312ms 0.6ms 1.3MB 300ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 5.c 315ms 2.8ms 1.0MB 307ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.3978+711b4e93e
c 5.c 320ms 0.8ms 1.3MB 310ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 8-i.c 320ms 0.4ms 1.3MB 310ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 2.c 320ms 0.2ms 1.0MB 310ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.3978+711b4e93e
c 5.c 331ms 2.0ms 1.4MB 320ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 2.c 341ms 0.6ms 1.4MB 327ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 8-i.c 361ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 350ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.3978+711b4e93e
c 8-i.c 367ms 5.2ms 1.4MB 357ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
lua 4.lua 1109ms 7.7ms 1.4MB 1097ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 1.4MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.4

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
c 5.c 34ms 0.5ms 1.0MB 23ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.3978+711b4e93e
c 8-i.c 34ms 0.1ms 1.3MB 30ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 5.c 34ms 0.3ms 1.3MB 27ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 2.c 35ms 1.7ms 1.3MB 23ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 2.c 35ms 0.1ms 1.0MB 23ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.3978+711b4e93e
c 5.c 36ms 0.5ms 1.4MB 30ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 2.c 37ms 0.3ms 1.4MB 30ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 8-i.c 38ms 0.2ms 1.0MB 30ms 0ms zigcc 0.11.0-dev.3978+711b4e93e
c 8-i.c 40ms 1.2ms 1.4MB 30ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
lua 4.lua 118ms 7.0ms 1.4MB 110ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1211ms 12ms 1.4MB 1200ms 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 1388ms 5.9ms 1.3MB 2723ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 6-im.c 1655ms 1.8ms 1.2MB 3250ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 6-im.c 1681ms 1.9ms 5.2MB 3297ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 4-m.c 1696ms 0.6ms 3.3MB 3330ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 5-im.c 1852ms 16ms 1.3MB 3630ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 5-im.c 2158ms 12ms 3.2MB 4240ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 3-m.c 2211ms 13ms 3.2MB 4343ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 3-m.c 2214ms 25ms 1.3MB 4343ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.2MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.4
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.5MB 4990ms 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 358ms 1.2ms 1.3MB 680ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 6-im.c 425ms 3.0ms 1.3MB 813ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 6-im.c 431ms 1.8ms 3.3MB 823ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 4-m.c 433ms 0.8ms 3.2MB 830ms 3ms clang 14.0.0
c 5-im.c 472ms 1.8ms 1.3MB 907ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 5-im.c 558ms 12ms 3.2MB 1067ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 3-m.c 559ms 2.5ms 1.2MB 1083ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 3-m.c 563ms 4.0ms 3.2MB 1087ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
lua 1.lua 1559ms 1.5ms 2.5MB 1547ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.2MB 4990ms 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 99ms 1.6ms 1.3MB 170ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 6-im.c 114ms 1.0ms 3.2MB 207ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 6-im.c 116ms 1.1ms 3.2MB 200ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 4-m.c 116ms 0.5ms 3.2MB 203ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 5-im.c 129ms 2.7ms 1.3MB 230ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 5-im.c 148ms 2.0ms 3.1MB 267ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
c 3-m.c 150ms 3.9ms 1.3MB 273ms 0ms gcc 13.1.0
c 3-m.c 159ms 15ms 3.5MB 287ms 0ms clang 14.0.0
lua 1.lua 393ms 0.7ms 1.4MB 383ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 1.5MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.4