Programming Language and compiler
Benchmarks

Lua VS C++ benchmarks

Current benchmark data was generated on Tue Dec 31 2024, 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
lua 1.lua 3311ms 71ms 172.9MB 3173ms 127ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 104.9MB 4940ms 47ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 277ms 1.4ms 15.6MB 257ms 3ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 757ms 1.9ms 17.0MB 743ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

helloworld

Input: QwQ

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 1.cpp 1.0ms 0.1ms 1.4MB 0ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
lua 1.lua 1.5ms 0.0ms 2.4MB 0ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
cpp 1.cpp 1.8ms 1.0ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
lua 1.lua 2.2ms 1.0ms 2.1MB 0ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

merkletrees

Input: 17

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 107.3MB 4950ms 37ms lua 5.4.7
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 149.3MB 4937ms 47ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3

Input: 15

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
lua 1.lua 1019ms 0.9ms 31.1MB 983ms 20ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua 2026ms 40ms 28.6MB 2003ms 3ms lua 5.4.7

nbody

Input: 5000000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 158ms 1.3ms 1.5MB 150ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 0-i.cpp 168ms 2.5ms 2.3MB 160ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 294ms 0.7ms 1.8MB 280ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 298ms 3.2ms 2.3MB 287ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
lua 4.lua 677ms 3.8ms 2.3MB 670ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.3MB 4987ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 500000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 0-i.cpp 17ms 0.2ms 1.5MB 10ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 0-i.cpp 18ms 0.1ms 2.3MB 10ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 1.cpp 32ms 0.4ms 1.8MB 20ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 1.cpp 33ms 0.7ms 2.3MB 23ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
lua 4.lua 72ms 3.0ms 2.3MB 60ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 4.lua 1042ms 22ms 2.3MB 1033ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

spectral-norm

Input: 8000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 458ms 3.4ms 4.2MB 1780ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 8-m.cpp 459ms 22ms 7.3MB 1757ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 876ms 7.8ms 7.4MB 3420ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 885ms 20ms 4.2MB 3437ms 3ms g++ 11.4.0
lua 1.lua 3844ms 19ms 2.5MB 3830ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.4MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7

Input: 4000

lang code time stddev peak-mem mem time(user) time(sys) compiler compiler/runtime
cpp 8-m.cpp 118ms 1.8ms 7.4MB 433ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 8-m.cpp 126ms 5.2ms 4.1MB 463ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 6-im.cpp 225ms 2.6ms 7.4MB 847ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 226ms 2.7ms 4.1MB 857ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
lua 1.lua 970ms 12ms 2.4MB 960ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
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
cpp 8-m.cpp 37ms 0.9ms 4.0MB 117ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
cpp 8-m.cpp 42ms 11ms 7.4MB 117ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 64ms 1.6ms 7.3MB 210ms 0ms clang++ 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
cpp 6-im.cpp 64ms 0.1ms 4.0MB 227ms 0ms g++ 11.4.0
lua 1.lua 243ms 1.7ms 2.3MB 230ms 0ms luajit 2.1.0-beta3
lua 1.lua timeout 0.0ms 2.0MB 4990ms 0ms lua 5.4.7